[Samba] Printer not accessible! Plea

[Robert Adkins]

Martin,

	There is a great deal more that needs to be done other then the creation   
of a smb.conf file for setting up a PDC for any Windows workstations.

	Unfortunately, I only have experience with setting up a PDC for a mixed   
bag of Windows 9x, Windows NT 4.0 and Win2K systems. The only WinXP   
machine we utilize is one laptop, which is rarely ever attached to the   
corporate network. So, that machine is just setup for to see our domain   
as a workgroup.

	I do know that some of the things that you need for a Samba PDC include   
setting up machine accounts in both your normal UNIX environment and also   
in the smbpasswd file. You also need a netlogon directory and a profiles   
directory, if you are using roaming profiles.

	Unfortunately, I don't have enough time available to go over all the   
configurations with you, since I am a one-man IT Department with many   
projects currently in the works... What I can do is send you some links   
and provide some guidance towards some information that helped me   
greatly.

	One thing I recommend is to pick up a copy of the O'Reilly book, "Using   
Samba". While it is slightly dated these days, the book was immeasurably   
helpful as it explained quite a bit about how SMB (In Windows) works and   
gave some great background information for configuring a Samba PDC.

	Another wonderful resource is the built-in Swat HTML help files. If you   
haven't taken a look at Swat yet, definitely do so. It should have been   
part of your installation process for the version of Samba that you are   
using. One thing to consider before using Swat, is that Swat will rewrite   
your configuration file. This is important, because Samba rereads that   
file about every 20 to 30 seconds. This rewrite streamlines the file and   
allows Samba to turn up the speed considerably, especially if you have   
many shares. What it does is remove ALL of the comments and in-file   
documentation.

	Another tool that I used to configure my Samba install is webmin. It can   
be found at www.webmin.com. This tool is awesome for remotely   
administrating a UNIX Server, if you want to use a GUI tool. (Sometimes I   
really enjoy using such a tool, even though I am comfortable with CLI   
configurations.) Webmin will display everything at once in an easy to   
read format. The only thing it currently doesn't support configuring is a   
Samba PDC.

	Here are a few links to some helpful Samba PDC setups:

	http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue6/m6samba1.html

	http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/index.htm - There is a link titled   
"Samba File/Print Sharing" which should prove helpful as it has a section   
dedicated to Samba PDC.

	The final thing that I can recommend is to use the latest release of   
Samba. I have read of a number of issues with older releases of Samba   
with Windows XP and Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 (but not SP1 or SP2   
of Windows 2000.) I didn't have the time to really dig into those issues   
and I wouldn't be able to reproduce them here since I haven|t quite the   
same configurations of OSs. So, I can only imagine that MS made some   
"minor" changes to the way those client Operating Systems talk via the   
SMB protocol.

	I hope that has been helpful. Good luck with yor network!

Robert Adkins II
IT Manager/Buyer
Impel Industries, Inc.
Ph. 586-254-5800
Fx. 586-254-5804


 -----Original Message-----
From: Martin Peter Hanke [mailto:mphanke at web.de]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:48 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org; Robert Adkins
Subject: [Samba] Printer not accessible! Please review my conf on leaks

   

   

Hi,

I'm having problems with my printer, I can't access the printer not even
as root! Please review my smb.conf and give me some hints on what I
messed up. If you have some enhancements for me please add comments.

Thanks for your efforts,

Martin

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