[Samba] Restrict access to printers

[Paul McAtasney]

When I say it doesn't work, the printer is working fine. Unfortunately,
everyone can print to it, even those users not in the group grp1.

Regards Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Carter [mailto:jerry at samba.org]
Sent: 19 April 2002 14:56
To: Paul McAtasney
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Restrict access to printers

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Paul McAtasney wrote:

> I'm running samba 2.2.3a and want to add a printer so that it can only be
> used by certain users (or groups of users). This is the entry in the
> smb.conf file
>
> [floor2]
>         comment = Printer 2nd Floor
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         printable = Yes
>         use client driver = Yes
>         valid users = @grp1
>         write list = @grp1
>         force group = grp1
>         public = no
>
> However, this doesn't appear to work. Can anyone enlighten me as to what's
> wrong?

Does work in what way?  Any error messages?  Have you looked at a level 10
debug log?  Any errors there?






cheers, jerry
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