printer access problems

[Kohei Yoshida]

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 21:42, Akop Pogosian wrote:
> For some reason, one of our Win2k Pro users has problems listing
> printer queues.  When the user clicks on the printer icon in the
> printers tab, a message is displayed "access denied" and an empty job
> listing window pop up. However, the user is still able to print.  On
> the other hand, she has no problems accessing her home drive from the
> same samba server. I was not able to reproduce this problem using my
> Win2k PC.
> 
> Our setup is the following
> 
> * passwords are encrypted
> * security = user
> * samba version is 2.2.2 on a Solaris 2.6 server.
> * this problem happens whether or not I add "guest=ok" in the printer's
>   section of smb.conf
> * She is able to view the queue of at least one of the printers which is
>   strange considering that  the printers are setup identically on the
>   server.
> * despite of not being able to list the print jobs, she can still
>   print on a that printer.
> * The printing system is the default SysV.
> * It seems that this problem started happening after upgrade from samba
>   2.0.7 to 2.2.2
> 
> 
> Any ideas what could be wrong here?

I had the same problem (and I know several others did).   Setting the
"use client driver" to yes did it for me.  This should work under
version 2.2.2.

Kohei