[Samba] Printing: Access denied, unable to connect

[Van Sickler, Jim]

Steve,

  Do you have the samba guest connection set up?
I think you need it if you have guest ok=yes.
e.g.

Map to Guest = Bad User
Guest Account = ftp (or another no-login account)
                    (I created and use smb_nobody)

The Access Denied may be for the IPC$ connection,
and IIRC the guest/bad user account may
satisfy this.

Boost the debug level in [Global] to 3 or
higher to see the messages re: the access
denied - you may find more info there than you
would via tcpdump.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Carter [mailto:scarter at pobox.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 11:24 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Printing: Access denied, unable to connect
> 
> 
> I doubt it'll help much, but I've done some more investigation.  The 
> original system was a FreeBSD 4.7 server running samba 2.2.6:
> 
> # smbd -V
> Version 2.2.6
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD xxxx.xxxx.xxx 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Wed Oct 16 
> 17:38:23 MST 2002 root at xxxx.xxxx.xxx:/usr/src/sys/compile/XXXX  i386
> 
> I built a new box running Debian Linux 2.2r7 with samba 2.2.3 and CUPS
> v1.1.14:
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux xxxx.xxxx.xxx 2.2.19 #1 Sat Jun 9 13:04:06 EST 2001 i586 unknown
> # smbd -V
> Version 2.2.3a-6 for Debian
> 
> I also shutdown every other SMB box on my network and worked with one
> Windows 2000 laptop and the aforementioned Debian machine.  I 
> bet you can
> guess now that I got the very same error message on the W2K 
> laptop whether
> using the Debian/cups or the FreeBSD/lpd servers; "Access 
> Denied, unable 
> to connect".
> 
> This is totally silly, and there appears to be nothing in the logs (of
> anything) to indicate exactly what is denying access.  All I 
> can think of 
> is to use tcpdump and hope I can grab something interesting 
> but SMB is so 
> chatty it'll be almost impossible.
> 
> Anyone else seeing these same errors?
> 
> -Steve
> 
> * Steve Carter <scarter at pobox.com> [021106 17:53]:
> > > smb.conf:
> > > 
> > > [global]
> > >         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> > > 
> > >         printing = BSD
> > >         printcap name = /etc/printcap
> > >         print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P%p -r %s
> > > [printer]
> > > #       use client driver = yes
> > >         path = /var/spool/lpd/spit
> > >         printable = yes
> > >         printer name = lp
> > >         read only = yes
> > >         guest ok = yes
> > > 
> > > printcap:
> > > 
> > > dj932c|color|HP DeskJet 932c:\
> > >         :sh:mx#0:\
> > >         :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/spit:\
> > >         :if=/usr/local/libexec/magicfilter/dj550c-filter:\
> > >         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errors:
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