[Samba] Anonymous printing and howto, dumb questions :-)

Beast indorama at rad.net.id
Tue Dec 30 04:47:42 GMT 2003


Tuesday, December 30, 2003, 11:35:46 AM, Beast wrote:

> Monday, December 29, 2003, 9:33:32 PM, Peter wrote:

>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Beast wrote:

>>>
>>> In samba howto collection it says :
>>> ...
>>> Don’t use it if you want to protect your passwords. Better share the printer in
>>> a way that does not require a password! Printing will only work if you have a working netbios
>>> name resolution up and running.
>>>
>>> How to set "anonymous shared printer" in Win 2000?
>>> even if I give permision to anyone, Win refuses to gives list.
>> I guess you want is a standalone printer which serves everyone on
>> your local network. I use cups and this simple smb.conf

> I mean printing to windows 2000 from samba (without giving username
> and password).
> I'm using RH 9.0 + CUPS + Samba 3.0

Oh, i have to enable guest account (either local or domain guest)
which is not preferred...



--beast 



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