[Samba] Windows 2000 printing to public printer

[Etienne Tourigny]

Humm.. I see.  In the smb.conf man page it explains that the "Access
Denied; Unable to connect" error occurs when the printer is considered a
local one (because of local drivers) and the user trying to access the
printer has Administrative rights.  This happens even if a user belongs
to the "Users" group in Windows 2000 (locally).  But if the drivers are
on the server there should be no problem.  

Am I right to say that if one uses a print$ section (even if there are
no drivers per say on the server) then administrative users will not get
the "Access Denied; Unable to connect" error, since Windows 2000
considers it a Network printer?

Final point I just realized, is that even if you get this error you can
still print on the samba printer, but you won't be able to see it's
status.


Thanks,
Etienne


On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 10:33, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> On 10 Feb 2003, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
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> > Hmmm. found the solution myself.
> > 
> > The best solution is to add the following line to the [printer] section
> > in smb.conf:
> > 
> >    use client driver = yes
> > 
> > This forces the Windows 2000 (and XP?) to properly treat the printer as
> > a remote device and not locally attached.  I found this on
> > http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~josephm/tips.html and later in the smb.conf
> > man page...   RTFM!!!!
> 
> Nope.  use client driver is a severe hack to be used **only** when you 
> want to install the drivers locally on the client for a given printer.
> Generally disable spoolss is cleaner, but that is a global setting.
> The use client driver parameter allows drivers to be made available on the 
> server for some printers and not others.  Never enable it for a printer 
> that will provide drivers on the server.
> 
> 
> cheers, jerry
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