Problem printing from NT to printer attached to LInux box

[Christian Barth]

You need 2 spool directories: one for samba, on for your lpd: Samba 
recives the print-file, stores it in it's own printer spool directory 
and then issues the unix print command to print the file. In most 
cases the file is copied to the lpd spool directory by lpd and if the 
unix print command is successfull, the file is removed form the samba 
spool directory by samba. Once lpd has printed the file, it clears 
it's spool dirctory.

Note:
This is the principle. Depending on its options, lpd may symlink the 
file to its spool directory, lpd may delete the file in the samba 
spool directory, ... lock at the options of your lpr command.

Remark:
"file" above is NOT my_word_documet.doc, but a file containing the 
data to be printed, which is postscript if you use a postscript 
printer.

see below



> 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
According to the things said above this is worng. set:
     path = /var/spool/samba
and set up /var/spool/samba with the permissions "drwxrwxrwt", change 
the perimisions of /var/spool/lpd/lp back to it's original, restart 
samba, try again


Christian


>    browseable = yes
>    guest ok = yes
>    writable = no
>    printable = yes
>    public = yes
>    write list = @administrators,root   
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Carlton
> 
> 
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