[Samba] Another printing problem...

Ruben I Safir ruben at mrbrklyn.com
Sun Sep 22 18:32:00 GMT 2002


Can you detail this with a config sample?

Ruben


On 2002.09.21 20:08 Bunny Pfau wrote:
> At 09:40 AM 9/22/2002 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >Jeff Shipman wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm running samba 2.2.3a-6 under Debian (testing) and I
> > > am having a heck of a time getting Windows 2000 to print
> > > to my printer. I keep getting that "Access denied, unable
> > > to connect" message. At one point I had it so you could
> > > print test pages, but as soon as you tried to print from
> > > an application, it would break. However, that doesn't
> > > even work anymore. I've been reading around, but none
> > > of the solutions I've seen work for me. Here is what I
> > > have in my smb.conf file for the printer:
> > >
> > > [Epson]
> > >      use client driver = Yes
> > >      path = /var/spool/samba
> > >      comment = Epson Stylus COLOR 777
> > >      guest ok = Yes
> > >      printable = Yes
> > >      print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r
> > >      printer name = Epson
> > >      browseable = Yes
> > >      guest ok = Yes
> > >      writable = no
> > >
> > > My /var/spool/samba looks like this:
> > >
> > > drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         4096 Sep 21 14:28 /var/spool/samba
> > >
> > > Here is a section from my log:
> > >
> >
> > > At some point it seems to be checking the Lanman password?
> >
> >I don't know, but Samba 2.2 does some werid stuff...
> >
> > > I have no idea why it's doing that. The password bonnie logs
> > > in with is the same as the unix password. Plus, she is allowed
> > > to login to all of the other shares (which can be seen in the
> > > last line).
> > >
> > > If anyone could provide me assistance with this, I would greatly
> > > appreciate it. I've been scratching my head over this for a couple
> > > of days now.
> >
> >You probably need to turn up the debug level, and show exactly where the
> >connection to [epson] is failing.
> >
> >Andrew Bartlett
> 
> 
> I'd be interested in the answer, too--I see this consistently under Samba
> 2.2.1 (Solaris 7/Win2k clients).  The way we work around
> it is to create a mount --like to the PC user's UNIX home directory,
> a SAMBA share--once the user authenticates on that file system share,
> the printer works okay..
> 
> Bunny Pfau
> 
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