[Samba] Troubleshooting Printer setup

John Blue jblue at bestpond.com
Wed Jan 8 10:43:01 GMT 2003


Resolved !


> I am running SuSE V8.0, and Samba 2.2.7a on a small 
> network server.
> 
> I have been having problems relating to sorting out printing from an
> NT4 workstation to a laser printer on the Samba server.
> 
> I had to reboot my Windoze PC and am logged in as myself (I have
> Administrator rights). I can see the shares by looking for the
> computer through Network Neighborhood from Windows NT using the ip
> 192.168.0.5 or by the PC name "penguin"and can proceed to launch the
> wizard and add the printer, however it fails on trying to finish the
> process. 
> 
> I get the error message:
> Operation could not be completed. Access denied!
> 
> I am assuming that a configuration file is not being written due
> probably to a permissions issue, if this is the case then I am at a
> loss to know what and where the permissions have to be changed.
> 

Error in samba configuration.
[printers] needed public = yes.

Thanks,

John
> Could someone set me straight here? 
> Any advice appreciated.
> 
> John 
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