[Samba] "Printer settings couldn't be saved. Access is denied" problem on Samba 2.2.6

[Frank Ling]

Hi Samba gurus,

I need your help for the problem of denying the change of the print 
driver settings on samba. I have no any clue of this problem. Thanks for 
any comments and tips.

Our institution has a windows 2000 active directory domain; I joined my 
test samba 2.2.6 on a Linux box into domain as the file/print member 
server. All the file sharing worked fine, but when I tried to upload 
printer drivers from a Windows 2000 box into samba, and applied the 
change to the printer.  I got following message: “Printer settings could 
not be saved. Access is denied.” As matter of fact, I could see the 
printer drivers were uploaded into the W32X86 directory.

I used “atdadmin” account on a Win2k client to do the printer driver 
uploading.

Under /etc/samba/smb.conf, I had following settings:

    load printers = yes
    auto services = lp1 lp2 lp3 lp6 single1 hp8550 hpplot lanier \
                 esig esig4050 esig5m esig8150 esigcolor dircolor

    printer admin = @rdp,help,atdadmin

    [print$]
    path = /etc/samba/pdrivers
    guest ok = yes
    browseable = yes
    read only = yes
    write list = @rdp,help,atdadmin

[lp1]
    comment = HP8100 in RDP Users Room
    printer = lp1
    printable = yes
    browseable = yes
    path = /tmp
    print command = /usr/bin/lp  -d%p %s
    preexec = csh -c 'echo \"Your job destined for printer %S has been 
received by %L \" | /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -M %m -I %I' &
    public = no
    writable = no
    create mode = 0700

etc…….

Following are the files under /etc/samba/:

[root at rerun samba]# ls -al
total 80
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Nov 19 14:22 .
drwxr-xr-x   72 root     root         8192 Nov 19 14:39 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           20 Oct 16 13:02 lmhosts
drwxr-xr-x    3 atdadmin root         4096 Nov 15 14:24 pdrivers
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          776 Oct 16 13:01 recycle.conf
-rw-------    1 root     root         8192 Nov 19 14:14 secrets.tdb
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10667 Oct 29 11:53 smb10-29-02.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        15582 Nov 15 13:55 smb.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10731 Oct 16 13:02 smb.conf.rpmnew
-rw-------    1 root     root          452 Nov 15 14:57 smbpasswd
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           97 Oct 16 13:02 smbusers
[root at rerun samba]# cd pdrivers
[root at rerun pdrivers]# ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x    3 atdadmin root         4096 Nov 15 14:24 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Nov 19 14:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x    4 atdadmin root         4096 Nov 19 14:21 W32X86
[root at rerun pdrivers]# cd W32X86
[root at rerun W32X86]# ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x    4 atdadmin root         4096 Nov 19 14:21 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 atdadmin root         4096 Nov 15 14:24 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 atdadmin rdp          4096 Nov 15 14:21 2
drwxr-xr-x    2 atdadmin rdp          4096 Nov 15 14:07 3
[root at rerun W32X86]# cd 2
[root at rerun 2]# ls -al
total 4272
drwxr-xr-x    2 atdadmin rdp          4096 Nov 15 14:21 .
drwxr-xr-x    4 atdadmin root         4096 Nov 19 14:21 ..
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp        118180 Jan 31  2000 hp8550_6.ppd
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp        119718 Nov 17  2000 hpbafd32.dll
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp         11536 Nov 20  2000 hpbf4020.dll
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp        101136 Nov 20  2000 hpbf4021.dll
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp       1293584 Nov 20  2000 hpbf4022.dll
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp       1073424 Nov 20  2000 hpbf4023.dll
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp        403216 Nov 20  2000 hpbf4024.dll
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp         57439 Nov 20  2000 hpbf4024.hlp
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp         70298 Nov 20  2000 hpbf4024.pmd
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp        421648 Nov 20  2000 hpbf4025.dll
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp        459264 Nov 20  2000 hpbf4026.dll
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp         99840 Nov 17  2000 hpbftm32.dll
-rwxrw-r--    1 atdadmin rdp         58368 Nov 17  2000 hpdcmon.dll
[root at rerun 2]#


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Frank Ling
System Administrator
UCAR/NCAR/ATD
email: ling at uar.edu
office: 303-497-8799
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