[Samba] Printers
David Flood
dpf at scms.rgu.ac.uk
Mon Aug 26 05:52:00 GMT 2002
This is my first Email the samba list so bear with me.
The problem is we have just put a new server into place to take over the job of file
server. While we were doing this we upgraded samba which at the time was 2.2.4(A
couple of days before the newer version come out - DOH)
The old version running on the old file server was 2.0.6.
Now my problems seem to be with printers. Now I read something saying printers are
now handled differently than they was in 2.0.6. We set up the printers in samba by
simply copying the entries from the 2.0.6 smb.conf into the new 2.2.4 smb.conf.
Besides smbstatus displaying messages complaining that the postscript and printer
driver options were deprecated everything seemed to work fine. When I logged in as
administrator and installed those printers everything appeared to work fine. When other
users logged in they got access denied when looking at the printer in the printers folder
under windows.
This is the main issue and I need to get this resolved pretty quickly.
The other side issue coming off of this is I suspect this method of setting up printers is
not the correct method. If so I'd rather get it set up correctly, I know if it ain't broke... but
I'm better to do it now since we are upgrading. Also if this involves a printcap file I'll
need info on what this is as I've never knowingly used one.
Background info:
Server OS: Solaris 8
Client OS: Win 2k/XP
Samba Version: 2.2.4
Network OS: Novell
Again this is my first message to the samba list so sorry if there any obvious questions
here.
Thanks in advance
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