Problem printing from NT to printer attached to LInux box

[Carlton Davis]

Thanks for your response Joel. The problem I am encountering though
is not related to the permision of lpr because it is already suid
as indicated below.
-r-sr-sr-x   1 root     lp          16224 Mar 11  2000 /usr/bin/lpr

Any other suggestions?

-Carlton    

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Joel Hammer wrote:

> Hmmmm...
> A juicy permissions problem.
> Try running checkpc -f and see if that fixes up permissions for you.
> Below are the permissions on lpr, I assume your print command.
> It needs to be suid.
> rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       235672 Feb 17  2000 /usr/bin/lpr 
> Joel


> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:50:41PM -0500, Carlton Davis wrote:
> > I installed Samba 2.2.2 on my Linux box. The smb.conf file is as shown 
> > below. The permission on /var/spool/lpd/lp is set to 755; ie, it is 
> > writable only by the owner, which is lp. With the setup as is, when I
> > try to print from the NT machine, the smb log on the Linux box
> > indicates the following error: " print_job_start: insufficient
> > permissions to open spool file /var/spool/lpd/lp".
> > If I set the permission on /var/spool/lpd/lp to 777, I can
> > print; however, for obvious security concerns, this solution is
> > undesirable.
> > 
> > Could someone inform me as to what is the correct way to set things up
> > to allow printing from my NT machine without making /var/spool/lpd/lp
> > writable by all. My smb.conf file is shown below.
> > 
> > [global]
> >    netbios name = bert
> >    workgroup = WORKGROUP
> >    hosts allow = 10.10.10. 127.
> >    load printers = yes
> >    max log size = 50
> >    security = server
> >    password server = 10.10.10.8
> >    socket options = TCP_NODELAY 
> > 
> > [printers]
> >    comment = All Printers
> >    path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
> >    browseable = yes
> >    guest ok = yes
> >    writable = no
> >    printable = yes
> >    public = yes
> >    write list = @administrators,root   
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > -Carlton
> > 
> > 
> > 
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