[Samba] printers + windows XP

[Mark Cooke]

One thing you might try is going to the printer security tab, and
removing the 'manage printer' permission for everyone.

This worked around the issue for me here.

Mark

On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 21:15, Robin Hall wrote:
> I have samba set up on slackware linux. I have a printer set up on the same machine. It shows up on the windows XP machine and even lets me install and everything. It keeps saying access denied though. I have tried all sorts of stuff to get it to work with the XP machine but I keep gettting the same error.
> This is my smb.conf:
> [global]
> 	printing = bsd
> 	printcap name = /etc/printcap
> 	load printers = yes
> 	log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m
> 	lock directory = /var/lock/samba
> 	encrypt passwords = yes
> 	security = user
> 	null passwords = yes
> 
> [printers]
> 	comment = All Printers
> 	path = /var/spool/lpd/Lexmark
> 	browseable = no
> 	printable = yes
> 	public = yes
> 	writable = no
> 	inherit permissions = yes
> 	create mode = 0700
> 	guest ok = yes
> 
> [homes]
> 	comment = home directory
> 	browseable = no
> 	read only = no
> 	create mode = 0750
> 
> [tmp]
> 	comment = Temporary file space
> 	path = /tmp
> 	read only = no
> 	public = yes
> 
> any suggestions will be greatly appreciated
> 
> Robin
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