[Samba] insufficient permissions to open spool file ........

Jarmo Järvenpää Jarmo.Jarvenpaa at softers.net
Fri Aug 29 09:32:20 GMT 2003


Please check the owner, group and the permissions on /var/spool/samba -
directory.

I think this will make the problem go away (but its very insecure, thus
only for testing): chmod 777 /var/spool/samba

Jarmo

iyke Adibe wrote:
> 
> Hello Linux/Samba folks,
> 
> am new on Linux/Samba and in dying need of help. From the error message:
> 
> insufficient permissions to open spool file /var/spool/samba/smbprn.000016.jp8nNO.
> 
> Here is a copy of my smb.conf: In most cases, i have edited my smb.conf using the root console screen and added/edited printers thru YaST2.



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