[Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

[Steve Cohen]

Steve Cohen wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
>  > On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 23:41 -0600, Steve Cohen wrote:
>  >
>  >> Steve Cohen wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> I have a little home network, with a wireless router.  The main box 
> on the ntwk runs RedHat 9.0 and Samba 2.2.7a.
>  >>>
>  >>> I have a Win2K laptop provided to me by my employer with all the 
> typical corporate security constraints.
>  >>>
>  >>> I can take the laptop home and access the internet from it through 
> the laptops secondary wireless router card and my wireless router.  What 
> I'd like to be able to do beyond that is print documents from the laptop 
> to my home printer.  It won't work.  The laptop can see the printer, but 
> Samba is not letting it access the printer.  The laptop is within the 
> corporate domain of my employer.  You can't sign on otherwise.  It's not 
> in Samba's workgroup, which seems to be assumed by many of the docs I've 
> read.  (In a catastrophically comic attempt to do this, I tried changing 
> the laptop's Network identification to use the Samba workgroup.  Not 
> only didn't this work, but I couldn't change it back, and once I was 
> logged off, couldn't log back on.  I had to get the work IT guys to 
> reconfigure it back to the corporate domain.)
>  >>>
>  >>> So, is there a way in Samba to give access to a computer outside 
> its workgroup?  What might that be?  A quick perusal of the docs that 
> come with SWAT didn't suggest anything promising.
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>
>  >> One more detail of my setup: security = SHARE
>  >
>  >
>  > ----
>  > I would expect that you could access 'My Network Places' -> View Entire
>  > Network -> Microsoft Windows Networking -> NAME_OF_HOME_WORKGROUP ->
>  > Samba_Server and see the printer share and then double click to install
>  > and set up.
> 
> 
> I see only the corporate network when I do this.  It is empty, unless I 
> enter the corporate VPN, at which point I see all the computers in the 
> corporate network that I would see if at work but not my local workgroup.
> 
>  > You probably will need to install printer driver for your
>  > home printer. Likely you aren't going to have sufficient privileges to
>  > add a printer and install a printer driver (you probably wouldn't if I
>  > was admin of your network anyway)
> 
> 
> I have sufficient privileges for installing the driver.  In fact, I have 
> gotten as far as installing this as a printer on the laptop.
> 
>  >
>  > Privileges though wouldn't prevent you from accessing your home
>  > workgroup and seeing file & printer shares. It's likely that WINS server
>  > stuff is set for work environment and thus, you may have to simply
>  > connect to samba server by ip address...
> 
> 
> Yes.  I type in the ip address and I see the printer and all the other 
> Samba shares.  Doubleclicking on the printer I get
> "Access Denied, Unable to Connect" in the window title bar for the 
> printer.  Windows will let me "print" to it, but nothing happens.
> 
>  >
>  > Try some command line stuff on laptop like...
>  >
>  > net view NAME_OF_SAMBA_SERVER
>  > or if unable to resolve the name...
>  > net view IP_ADDRESS_OF_SAMBA_SERVER
>  >
>  > and of course you can try stuff like...
>  >
>  > net use lpt2: \\IP_ADDRESS_OF_SAMBA_SERVER\NAME_OF_PRINTER
>  > but of course, you would want the driver to be installed.
> 
> 
> This "succeeds" but again, no printing happens.
> 
>  >
>  > Craig
>  >
> 
> What I didn't say before was that at one time this worked.  I was able 
> to print through this same connection.   Two events intervened:
> 1.  There was a glitch in the wireless router and I had to reset it to 
> factory settings and reconfigure, which I believe I did successfully.
> 2.  I updated my samba rpm from 2.2.7a-7.9.0 to 2.2.7a-8.9.0
> 
> One or both of these things may have messed with the config.
> 
>  From all the above, it seems to me that Windows is letting me out to 
> see the printer, even connect a driver to it.  But something in Samba is 
> preventing me from accessing, and after looking all up and down the 
> smb.conf, I don't see it.
> 

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Sorry about last post, didn't realize the log file would be stored 
inline.  So now I tarred and zipped it.  Hopefully list will take it 
now.  The attached logfile resulted from my boosting log level to 5 in
SWAT, then attempting to open printer.  Hopefully someone can explain 
access denied error from this input.