Pause/Resume printing jobs: SOLVED, sorta

[Tony Ricker]

Joel,
	Commenting out REJECT SERVICE=C allows the user to delete the job but
not pause the job from windoze. I will continue to mess with it until I
get the proper functionality.

Cheers,

Tony

Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> Well, the original post drifted away, so I added a new name, hoping this
> won't be overlooked.
> This is due to two things:
> First, when lpd starts up, it reads lpd.perms, which may reside in
> /etc/lpd.perms, other etc locations, and/or in the print queue itself.
> lpd.perms is dense, beyond me for now, but, if you make it a one line
> configuration file:
> DEFAULT ACCEPT
> then you allow everyone to access the full range of lpc and other commands.
> Not very secure but this is troubleshooting. Make sure your firewall is up.
> Second, unlike linux, which allows everyone then to alter print jobs in the
> queue, windows only allows the owner of the file to alter the print job,
> even with DEFAULT ACCEPT as above. Ergo, in a windows environment, this
> DEFAULT ACCEPT may not be too serious. A windows user cannot for example
> cancel any print jobs other than the ones he owns under the name he logged
> into windows with, and, he cannot stop the queue, etc, as far as I can see.
> (I would definitely check this out for yourself. By day I examine
> gallbladders for a living.)
> So, if the user name in windows is the same as the user name that samba is
> working with, and I have made lpd.perms a one line open door as above,
> then I can pause and resume jobs. Yeaah!.
> However, if the windows user name is different from the user name in samba,
> and it will be different if you have a guest login like ftp, then the windows
> user cannot pause and resume jobs.  Windows won't let them.
> Now, there may be errors in this explanation, since I cannot exhaustively
> try every combination of variables and still keep my day job,  but, that is
> what I have done and it works.
> It is somewhat shocking that a linux tech support hotline wouldn't have
> thought of lpd.perms as the reason for this. After all, they do this for
> their bread and butter.
> Joel
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:48:41PM -0600, Tony Ricker wrote:
> > All,
> >       I have the following in my smb.comf for printing commands...
> >
> > # NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to
> > # specifically define each individual printer
> > [printers]
> >    comment = All Printers
> >    path = /var/spool/samba
> >    browseable = no
> >    print ok = yes
> >    print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P%p -r %s
> >    lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P%p
> >    lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -P%p %j
> >    lppause command = /usr/sbin/lpc hold %p %j
> >    lpresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc release %p %j
> >    queuepause command = /usr/sbin/lpc -P%p stop
> >    queueresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc -P%p start
> >
> > I got this from a tech guy from Red Hat. When I try to pause a print
> > job, it says "You do not have sufficient privaliges to modify this job."
> > I did a chmod 777 on /usr/bin and /usr/sbin to no avail. Red Hat support
> > (oxymoron) says that they have no idea as to what would be causing this
> > (windoze or linux). Any ideas?  Has anyone ran into this? System config
> > is Red Hat 7.1 with samba 2.2.2
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tony
> 
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