[Samba] Printing on Samba with WinNT...
John H Terpstra
jht at samba.org
Thu Nov 20 07:51:24 GMT 2003
Rainer,
In the book, The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, in chapter 2
we have provided specific examples of how you can do this. This material
is not yet in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf (it will be released there in
April next year).
The following config file is all you need to create an anonymous file
server (it is from the book):
[global]
workgroup = MIDEARTH
netbios name = HOBBIT
security = share
[data]
path = /export
read only = No
guest only = Yes
The following gives you an anonymous print server:
[global]
workgroup = MIDEARTH
netbios name = LUTHIEN
security = share
printcap = /etc/printcap
show add printer wizard = No
prinitng = BSD
[printers]
path = /var/spool/samba
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
use client driver = Yes
browseable = No
An anonymous server is one that will take any connection, as any user, and
provides unrestricted access - subject of course to file system
permissions.
In addition to these configuration files you will need to set up file
system permissions and correct file and directory ownership. The book
explains this in detail.
Please do not complain at the subscribers on this list for not anwering
your request. Noone owes anyone an answer. Usually, when someone receives
no answer it has something to do with the way the request was made. It
pays to lurk around and observe how others interact before jumping in with
a request that will take someone significant time to answer.
Cheers,
John T.
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Rainer Hantsch wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Because I did not receive any useful answer on this issue, I want to ask now
> the THIRD time. It starts to become critical, because users are handicaped by
> this stupid problem, so any suggestion is welcome.
>
> Servers: SuSE 9.0 with Samba 2.2.5
> Encrypted Passwords = no
> // Full smb.conf at the end of this mail. //
> // I added some explanations to it here (manually). //
>
> There are also two Windoze NT4 Servers. -- They are NO PDC's!
> One is very old, the other one is required because of some
> crazy software which forces a Windoze SQL Database.
>
>
> Clients: Win-NT 4.0 Workstation
> EnablePlainTextPassword=1
>
>
> All Windows machines are configured using NO PASSWORDS. Because the Linux
> machine is also accessible from Internet (it is the mail server, I do remote
> administration, ..., the Linux server - of course - uses good passwords.
>
>
> Actual situation:
> -----------------
> When starting up Windows-Clients, the user presses "Ctrl+Alt+Del" to login as
> user - and simply hits "Enter", because he has no password to enter. Windows
> comes up and starts connecting the remote folders. When it comes to the
> folders on Linux, I have to enter the password, then it proceeds.
>
> · Sometimes printing is still NOT possible, while the dummy connection to
> 'cdrom' is established; in this case the stupid Windoze has to be restar-
> ted. :-/
> · If one accidently enters a wrong password, it often happens that this
> dummy network connection to 'cdrom' has to be deleted and re-configured
> again, otherwise I get not asked again for the password.
> · Opening the printer status window I get a message in the window header
> that the printer cannot be accessed. THOUGH, I am able to print, but
> I cannot see any printing jobs already queued, nor can I delete them.
> · Also, it needs a long while until printing a simple job is completed.
> Maybe this is because of some timeout?
>
> Finally I added a HotFolder and told the users to "print to file" (even
> directly into this folder, or collecting some jobs otherwhere (local disk) and
> then move them to the hotfolder. This seems to work much better because it
> reduces the problematic points of Windoze to 1/2 (a connected directory is
> enough). -- But it also makes it more complicated in handling, so this is no
> final solution at all.
>
> What I am looking for:
> ======================
> 1. I would like to configure SAMBA to accept any kind of connection, if
> possible without password. Because SAMBA is bound to the internal
> LAN card, this should be no security problem at all.
> Can I set up SAMBA that way? Would be great if it accepts everything
> and does everything in the name of one user (because it does only
> printing, this should be fine).
>
> 2. If 1.) does not work, what's about using one user with a trivial
> password for all windoze users? How do I set this up?
>
>
>
>
> mfg
>
> Ing. Rainer Hantsch
>
>
>
>
>
> Here the current smb.conf:
>
> ---<smb.conf>-------------
> # smb.conf is the main samba configuration file. You find a full commented
> # version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SuSE
> # Date: 2002-09-12
> [global]
> workgroup = SCHWELCH
> os level = 62
> time server = yes
> unix extensions = yes
> encrypt passwords = no
> map to guest = Bad User
> log level = 1
> syslog = 0
> printing = BSD
> printcap name = /etc/printcap
> socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
> wins support = no
> character set = ISO8859-15
> client code page = 850
> # veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/
>
> interfaces = 10.0.0.2/255.255.255.0
> # domain master = yes
>
> # Because no users shall have access to their Unix Home Paths, I remark this.
> #[homes]
> # comment = Home Directories
> # valid users = %S
> # browseable = no
> # writeable = yes
> # create mask = 0640
> # directory mask = 0750
>
> # This is a dummy share because NT is stupid and requires a Network share
> # to be able to use printers
> [cdrom]
> comment = DVD-ROM Linux
> path = /media/dvd
> browseable = yes
> writeable = no
> directory mask = 0555
>
> # This is a HotFolder which is maintained by a daemon. When Windoze places
> # files here, the daemon waits until they are 2 minutes old, then queues
> # them to the printer and deletes them. (This is my first workaround.)
> [encad-spool]
> comment = HotFolder für Encad
> path = /var/spool/hotfolder
> browseable = yes
> writeable = yes
> directory mask = 0777
> create mask = 0666
> force create mask = 0666
> force directory mask = 0777
>
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /tmp
> printable = yes
> create mask = 0600
> browseable = no
>
> # There are no printer drivers on Linux so I remark this.
> #[print$]
> # comment = Printer Drivers
> # path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
> # write list = @ntadmin root
> # force group = ntadmin
> # create mask = 0664
> # directory mask = 0775
> ---</smb.conf>------------
>
>
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