FW: [Samba] Samba printers print$

[Marcus White]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 11:36, Kyle Miller wrote:
> My [print$] section is pretty basic (I'm connecting as 'kyle', who is
> also defined as a printer admin in global. Included global for
> completeness, even though it's uninteresting.) :
> 
> [global]
>         workgroup = TESTGROUP
>         netbios name = KYLESMB
>         server string = Samba Server for Testing
>         log level = 4
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>         max log size = 50
>         dns proxy = No
>         printer admin = kyle
>         show add printer wizard = Yes
> 
> 
> [print$]
>         comment = Print Driver Auto-Download
>         path = /etc/samba/drivers
>         write list = kyle
>         read only = Yes
>         browseable = No
>         guest ok = No
> 
> My /etc/drivers/samba looks like this. Only a W32X86 dir, since that's
> the only platform on which I have clients.
> 
> [kyle]$ ls -al /etc/samba/drivers
> total 12
> drwxrwxrwt  3 root root 4096 Jul  7 13:42 .
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jul 12 15:11 ..
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 Jul  7 13:42 W32X86
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kyle
> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 05:37:21 -0400, Marcus White
> <1midniterider at comcast.net> wrote:
> > BTW... Did you create the directory list similar to this in your drivers
> > directory?
> > 
> > [print$]--+
> >           |--W32X86           # serves drivers to Windows NT x86
> >           |--WIN40            # serves drivers to Windows 95/98
> >           |--W32ALPHA         # serves drivers to Windows NT Alpha_AXP
> >           |--W32MIPS          # serves drivers to Windows NT R4000
> >           |--W32PPC           # serves drivers to Windows NT PowerPC
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Marcus O.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 09:56, Kyle Miller wrote:
> > > For what it's worth, I too have the same problem, which I posted to
> > > the list about a few weeks ago (unfortunately no response). I was
> > > following the section of the HOWTO that you linked to below. I think
> > > it's possible that there is a missing step in the documentation. I can
> > > print to my printer just fine, but cannot upload the drivers using the
> > > APW, as documented in the howto, even though my permissions appear to
> > > be correct.
> > >
> > > If anyone might be able to shed some more light on it, I'd sure
> > > appreciate it. In my case, details are in my previous email to the
> > > list, or I can provide them again. Maybe we can find some similarity
> > > between my setup and this guy's setup that leads to the problem.
> > >
> > > Kyle
> > >
> > > >Please check out this link:
> > > >http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/printing.html#id2550771
> > > >
> > > >HTH,
> > > >
> > > >Marcus O.
> > 
> >
FYI...

Here is a link to a pdf version of the Samba By Example book.
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf

Marcus O.