[Samba] Using print$ / timeouts to port 445...

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Ken Kleiner ken at cs.uml.edu wrote on Samba-digest:

> Tue Jul 29 16:52:53 GMT 2003
> 
> 
> Hi...
>  
>   I have set up my smb.conf to use the print$ directive, and have shared
> 3 printers.  I sucesfully added the printer drivers to the host, and can
> use them.  But - opening up the printer connection from the windows host
> is slow, and causes the printer 'status' window to say 'initializing'.
> 
>   While that happens, my samba.log shows :
> 
> 2003/07/29 16:44:40, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(327)
>   Allowed connection from  (myipaddress)
> [2003/07/29 16:45:02, 1] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_out(860)
>   timeout connecting to (myipaddress):445
> [2003/07/29 16:45:22, 1] libsmb/cliconnect.c:cli_connect(782)
>   Error connecting to (myipaddress) (Operation already in progress)
> [2003/07/29 16:45:22, 0] rpc_client/cli_spoolss_notify.c:spoolss_connect_to_client(91)
>   connect_to_client: unable to connect to SMB server on machine MACHINE-NAME. Error was : SUCCESS - 0.
> [2003/07/29 16:45:22, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(327)
>   Allowed connection from  (myipaddress)
> 
>   I see that port 445 is MICROSOFT-DS, but am wondering how/why I can change 
> this?  
> 
>   I know I can set disable spoolss = yes in smb.conf, but that obviously
> breaks the auto driver download.  Breaking the auto driver download doesn't
> allow a normal domain user to add a printer, as they get ' not sufficient access
> to local machine to add printer '.
> 
>   Thanks for any help you can shed on this...
> 
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> Ken Kleiner
> System Manager
> Computer Science Department

Don't they teach there to give versions, OS, config and other system
details, when asking for help in a newsgroup?                        ;-)

Cheers,
Kurt