[Samba] Point'n'Print: adddriver / WERR_ACCESS_DENIED

[Martin Zielinski]

Hello Philip,

try putting the "printer admin" parameter into the global section.
It's a global parameter that cannot be used "per share".

Greetings,
Martin

On Monday 04 October 2004 16:00, Philip Maurer wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> This problem has been bugging me for days now, I've got Cups version
> 1.1.21 and Samba 3.0.7 installed and working.  There is a single
> Laserjet 4100 attached to the network, printing via Cups or Cups/Samba
> works fine.
>
> The problems are with getting Point'n'Print to work.  I've been scouring
> the net, archived posts of this list, read the official Samba manual, to
> no avail.  The problem is always the same; I can successfully copy the
> drivers into the W32X86 directory using e.g. smbclient, but issuing the
> adddriver command via rpcclient
>
> rpcclient newserver -N -U'root%******' -c 'adddriver "Windows NT x86"
> "printer:cupsdrvr.dll:printer.ppd:cupsui.dll:cups.hlp:NULL:RAW:NULL"'
>
> Always returns: result was WERR_ACCESS_DENIED
>
> I've tried using the GUI method but when I get to the Advanced tab the
> 'New Driver' button is grayed out.
>
> Best regards,
>                    Philip
>
> Here's my smb.conf:
> ---------------------------[snip]-----------------
> [global]
> # Replace MYWORKGROUPNAME with your workgroup/domain
> workgroup = NOVASOFT
> # Of course this has no REAL purpose other than letting
> # everyone know its not Windows!
> # %v prints the version of Samba we are using.
> server string = Samba Server %v
> # We are going to use cups, so we are going to put it in here ;-)
> load printers = yes
> printing = cups
> printcap name = cups
> use client driver = no
> # We want a log file and we do not want it to get bigger than 50kb.
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> max log size = 50
> # We are going to set some options for our interfaces...
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> # This is a good idea, what we are doing is binding the
> # samba server to our local network.
> # For example, if eth0 is our local network device
> interfaces = lo eth0
> bind interfaces only = yes
> # Now we are going to specify who we allow, we are afterall
> # very security conscience, since this configuration does
> # not use passwords!
> hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 195.163.190.192/27
> hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
> # Other options for this are USER, DOMAIN, ADS, and SERVER
> # The default is user
> security = user
> # No passwords, so we're going to use a guest account!
> guest account = samba
> guest ok = yes
>
> # We now will implement the on access virus scanner.
> # NOTE: By putting this in our [Global] section, we enable
> # scanning of ALL shares, you could optionally move
> # these to a specific share and only scan it.
>
> # For Samba 3.x
> vfs object = vscan-clamav
> vscan-clamav: config-file = /etc/samba/vscan-clamav.conf
>
> # Now we setup our print drivers information!
> [print$]
> comment = Printer Drivers
> # this path holds the driver structure
> path = /etc/samba/drivers
> guest ok = yes
> browseable = yes
> read only = yes
> # Modify this to "username,root" if you don't want root to
> # be the only printer admin)
> write list = maph,root
>
> [HP_Laserjet_4100]
> comment = HP LaserJet Network Printer
> printable = yes
> path = /var/spool/samba
> public = yes
> guest ok = yes
> guest account = samba
> printer admin = maph,root
>
> # Now we setup our printers share.  This should be
> # browseable, printable, public.
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /var/spool/samba
> browseable = no
> public = yes
> guest ok = yes
> writeable = no
> printable = yes
> printer admin = maph,root

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Martin Zielinski                       mz at seh.de
Software Development
SEH Computertechnik GmbH     www.seh.de