[Samba] Can't upload printer driver from property sheet.

Serge Colle serge.colle at netzuno.com
Fri Aug 23 13:43:00 GMT 2002


Everything work fine if I connect with root credential.  However it does 
not work if I connect with the credential of
the printer admin user which is the credential I would like to use.

Serge

Craig Box wrote:

>>No matter what I try I was unable to upload the drivers to my samba
>>machine from the property sheet.  I don't get any error as I don't even
>>get the chance to press 'New Driver'.  I followed the
>>Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html to the letter (or so I beleive). But
>>everytime I get the the "Advance Tab", the "New Driver button is greyed
>>out.  However I can modify everything else on the property sheet.
>>
>>My clients are Windows XP and my server is FreeBSD 4.5
>>
>
>This was commonly caused for me when you're not logged into the system as
>root or a printer admin.
>
>Add a line saying 'printer admin = serge' (or whomever you might be) to the
>general smb.conf and try again.
>
>Craig
>

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