[Samba] Simple configuration question

[Jason Stewart]

Hi Alan,

What are the permissions on the Samba printer spool? Would they allow the user 
to write to the spool directory?

Cheers,
Jason



On Thursday 16 May 2002 05:17 am, Alan Deadman wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a Redhat 7.3 server which has samba-2.2.3a-6 installed (default
> version from RH7.3 installation).
>
> I have setup two shares and one printer. Two users can connect to samba and
> they have been added to /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Apart from the smb.conf file
> (shown below) no other changes have been made to the system.
>
> The problem is that although both users can use the shares, neither user
> can connect to the printer. The samba clients are Windows-XP Professional
> and the printer can be setup easily enough, but it shows a status of
> "Error: unable to connect, access is denied".
>
> The printer works fine from the Redhat 7.3 server.
>
> Any ideas? Smb.conf shown below...
>
> Regards
> Alan Deadman
>
> =====
> [global]
> workgroup = LSL
> server string = LSL_SAMBA
> printcap name = /etc/printcap
> load printers = yes
> printing = lpr
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> max log size = 0
> security = user
> encrypt passwords = yes
> smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> unix password sync = Yes
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
> *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
> pam password change = yes
> obey pam restrictions = yes
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> interfaces = 10.0.1.200
> remote announce = 10.0.1.255
> dns proxy = no
>
> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    browseable = no
>    writable = yes
>    valid users = %S
>    create mode = 0664
>    directory mode = 0775
>
> [printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    path = /var/spool/samba
>    browseable = yes
>    printable = yes
>    public = yes
>    writable = no
>    create mode = 0700
>
> [data]
>    comment = Data Folder
>    path = /data/Shared
>    read only = no
>    public = yes
> =====

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