Problem printing from NT to printer attached to LInux box

[Carlton Davis]

Thanks again for you response Joel. I don't have checkpc installed on
my box. My Samba set up is working in an acceptable way now; thanks to
Christian for his suggestion; see Christian's posting on this thread.

Best regards,

-Carlton


On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Joel Hammer wrote:

> Have you run checkpc -f as root?
> Here is what my /var/spool/lpd/ps looks like with ls -al:
> 
> [root at cc846558-a jlh]# ls -al /var/spool/lpd/ps
> total 110
> drwx--S---   2 daemon   lp           2048 Nov 16 20:19 . <---/ps
> drwx--S---  13 daemon   lp           1024 Nov 12 19:42 .. <--/lpd
> -rw-------   1 daemon   lp             69 Feb 20  2001 control.ps
> -rwx------   1 daemon   lp            416 Feb 27  2001 filter
> -rw-------   1 daemon   lp          68658 Aug  6 09:07 log
> -rw-------   1 daemon   lp              5 Feb 18  2001 lp0
> -rw-------   1 daemon   lp              5 Feb 18  2001 lp1
> -rw-------   1 daemon   lp              2 Aug 18 16:46 ps
> -rw-------   1 daemon   lp              0 Dec 19  1999 status
> -rw-------   1 daemon   lp           3892 Aug  6 09:08 status.ps
> -rw-------   1 daemon   lp              6 Aug  6 09:07 unspooler.ps 
>  
> I must say, I do not understand what the "S" is saying about permissions.
> That adds group id on execution of a file (chmod 4700) but I do not know
> what that means for a directory. May have to do with who can descend the
> directory.
> Joel
> 
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:37:54PM -0500, Carlton Davis wrote:
> > 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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