[Samba] Printing OK on 98, "Access denied" on XP Pro

[John H Terpstra]

Bill,

Try adding to [global]:
	guest only = Yes

- John T.

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, William Enestvedt wrote:

> I have a very simple setup on a Solaris 8 server, running Samba 3.0.1 (see smb.conf below). A desktop PC running Windows 98 (SE?) happily connects to and prints to my one shared printer, but an XP Pro laptop takes a loooong time to install the local driver and then just says "Access denied, unable to connect".
>    I already told it to use a client driver and disabled spoolss. Here's my smb.cnf file:
> ----------Start of smb.conf------------
> [global]
> 	workgroup = jwu
> 	netbiosname = pvd-dat-60
> 	security = share
> 	dns proxy = No
> 	wins server = <IP redacted>
> #	printcap name = /etc/printcap
> 	printing = sysv
> 	disable spoolss = Yes
> #[temp]
> #	path = /tmp
> #	read only = Yes
> #	guest ok = Yes
> [pvdpar03lz02]
> 	comment = HP 9000hns
> 	path = /var/spool/samba
> 	printable = Yes
> 	browseable = Yes
> 	guest ok = Yes
> #	read only = Yes
> 	use client driver = yes
> -----------End of smb.conf---------------
>    (The temp section was to test whether things worked before. I will actually delte those lines when I solve this problem. I commented out the printcap line because I don't want to share all the printers: I have a lot configured on this Sun but use a Windows print server to publishing them to desktop PC users.)
>    Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for everyone's time.
> -wde
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> Will Enestvedt
> UNIX System Administrator
> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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John H Terpstra
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