[Samba] Win2k Printing Problems

[Van Sickler, Jim]

Try commenting out the "printer admin=" entry
-use it only when installing drivers?

I believe you also have to create a dir for
samba to spool to, chmod 01777, chown root.daemon

e.g. /var/spool/samba

and change the "path=" entry to it.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JUSTIN GERRY [mailto:JGERRY at butchers.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 1:05 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Win2k Printing Problems
> 
> 
> I just joined this list, If this has been answered before I apologize:
> 
> I have a Redhat 7.2 box running Samba 2.2.4
> 
> I have a few printers running on JetDirect boxes that I am attempting
> to print to.
> 
> I used printconf in Redhat to set them up within the linux box.
> Everything works fine from the linux box.
> 
> I set them up within samba (see [printers] below), but when I print I
> get "Failed to open, retrying" on the queue.
> 
> If I do remove "use client driver=yes", I can then print but Win2k
> tells me that under "status" that "access denied; unable to 
> connect" on
> the queue.
> 
> I've tried testing with "use client driver=yes" and "disable spoolss =
> yes" and it does not seem to make much difference other than 
> getting rid
> of the "access denied; unable to connect error"
> 
> Here is what I think the important section in the smb.conf
> 
> [printers]
> 	comment = All Printers
> 	path = /var/spool/lpd
> 	printer admin = jgerry
> 	guest ok = Yes
> 	printable = Yes
> 	use client driver = Yes
> 	browseable = No
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin
> 
> 
> 
> 
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