[Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

[Steve Cohen]

D'OH!  What a doofus I am.  Let's attach the attachment, shall we?


Steve Cohen wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 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.
> 
>