[Samba] Re: Access denied when printing to Samba printers

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Ben Finney benfinney at thegoodguys.com.au

> Thu Aug 14 14:48:23 GMT 2003
> 
> 
> Ben Finney wrote:
>> Failure:
>>   - Printing anything to said printer shares.
>>  [...]
>> [printers]
>>         comment = All printers
>>         path = /var/local/spool/samba
>>         create mask = 0700
>>         guest ok = Yes
>>         printable = Yes
> 
> Corey Hart asked me (off-list) to check the permissions on the spool 
> directory.  They are:
> 
> 	$ ls -ld /var/local/samba/spool/
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root  nogroup  4096 Aug  7 13:24  /var/local/samba/spool/
> 

Well -- but your "path" in smb.conf points to "/var/local/spool/samba"
and *not* "/var/local/samba/spool/"....

> (This is based on advice to make a separate spool directory, with the 
> same permissions as /tmp has.)
> 

Cheers,
Kurt