[Samba] Printer Rights Fail

[Van Sickler, Jim]

add the following to your smb.conf [Global]:

disable spoolss = yes
use client driver = yes

restart samba

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Bramblett [mailto:kbramblett at dssresearch.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:42 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Printer Rights Fail
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I upgraded my Samba server on my RHL 7.2 box from 2.2.3a to 
> 2.2.7.  Almost
> immediately afterwards, all of my admin users suddenly were 
> unable to access
> the printers that were being shared by Samba.  Any idea of 
> what is wrong and
> how to fix it?  The messages I'm getting are that I do not have enough
> rights.
> 
> I am using a Windows 2000 Server PDC and a lot of Windows XP Pro, and
> Windows 98/95 clients, of which the Win9x pcs and some XP 
> clients have no
> problems.  Things are getting frantic here.
> 
> Here is a copy of a portion of my smb.conf file for the printers:
> 
> [global]
>             printcap name = /etc/printcap
>             load printers = yes
>             printing = lprng
>             use client driver = yes
> 
> [printers]
>             comment = All Printers
>             path = /usr/spool/samba
>             browseable = yes
>             print command = lpr -b -r -h -P%p %s
>             writeable = no
>             printable = yes
>             valid users = @DDS+"DOMAIN USERS" @DDS+"DOMAIN WEBUSERS"
> 
> All help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin Bramblett
> Network Administrator
> DSS Research
> 
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