[Samba] Need solution to Printers window access denied, unable to connect message.

[Stephen Carville]

I had the same problem after upgrading to 2.2.7.  You have to add:

use client driver = yes

Either globally or for the individual printer share.

Read the section on the above in the man page for smb.conf for an 
explanation.

On Wednesday 19 February 2003 07:35 pm, Tim Kubricht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>       I hope this is the right list to submit this request to
> 
>       I have the following problem with samba 2.2.2 that I upgraded 
to 
> samba 2.2.7 to try to see if the problem
>       would go away. But I still have the following problem:
> 
>           When I open the Start->Settings->Printers window
>           It shows the printers that I have connected to from the 
samba 
> print server  printer_name on samba_ip_address
>           It shows <opening>  at 1st then changes to <access denied, 
unable 
> to connect>
>           and never shows the ready message that I used to get from 
a samba 
> 1.9.15p8 server that I updated.
> 
>           * Can someone help me to get rid of the access denied 
messages 
> from the Printers window?
> 
>       The following is what I have:
> 
>              My OS is Solaris 8 my PCs are either WinNT4 or Win2000
>              I have set up smb.conf as you can see below
>              With it I can use dos to run net view and it works as 
expected
>              I can open Network Neighborhood and find my samba print 
server 
> and it will list all the printer shares
>              along with the Printers folder. If I double click the 
Printers 
> folder:
>              I can get a list of all the printers and the number of 
> documents that are currently being printed on each
>              printer and If I double-click on a specific printer I 
can get 
> the name of the job and person that is printing
>              on the queue.   This works as expected.  I did not see 
this 
> error in any of the Archives or the troubleshooting
>              section that I found or in any of the 3 books I have.   
I need 
> your expertise in solving this feature.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
>     
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>     smb.conf:# Samba config file created using SWAT
>              # Date: 2003/02/19 10:54:34
> 
>              # Global parameters
>              [global]
>                  workgroup = Name_Of_My_Workgroup
>                  server string = Samba %v on %h
>                  security = SERVER
>                  encrypt passwords = Yes
>                  map to guest = Bad User        <-- used and not 
used this 
> option
>                  password server = #PDC-Address# #BDC-Address#
>                  username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/username.map
>                  log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.samba
>                  max log size = 50
>                  printcap name = /etc/samba-printcap
>                  os level = 10
>                  preferred master = False
>                  local master = No
>                  domain master = False
>                  dns proxy = No
>                  wins server = #Primary-WINs-Address#
>                  guest account = ftp     <-- local acct & I also 
tried lp 
> account
>                  hosts allow = ###.###. ###.###. 127.   ###=2 
subnets at my 
> site
>                  printing = bsd
> 
>              [printers]
>                  comment = All Printers
>                  path = /var/spool/pc-spool     <-- priv=rwxrwxrwt 
owner=lp
>                  read only = No
>                  guest ok = Yes
>                  printable = Yes
>                  browseable = No
> 
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Stephen Carville <stephen at totalflood.com>
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