[Samba] not force-user'ing while printing?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:55:59AM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote:
> 
> Hello all,...
> 
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:09:07 +0200
> Kristian Rink <krink at pm-planc.de> wrote:
> [snip]
> > Problem: I set up one user to fax through capisuite, and I
> > actually intended to set up a printer in samba, doing something,
> > like
> > 
> > [printers]
> > 	...
> > 	force user = printfax
> > 	force group = printfax
> > 	...
> > 
> > to assign all print jobs to the fax user. For short: This is not
> > working; testparm doesn't complain but yet the "force ..."
> > directives are simply ignored, print jobs always started using the
> > user account that was starting the job at the workstation.
> 
> Sorry for bothering you guys again, but I am still messing around
> with this problem; after I didn't in any way manage to get Samba
> accepting my "force..." settings I am thinking about other means of
> getting the job done, anyhow I wanted to check here again before
> probably wasting a lot of time creating a workaround which might not
> be necessary. So, in case someone knows about this problem, I'd be
> thankful for any inspiration, and even a "force-doesn't-work-there"
> would be _very_ appreciated. 

Because the actual printing is done over IPC$, the per-share options
don't work.  I think they should, so file a bug at bugzilla.samba.org.

Andrew Bartlett