[Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:22 -0600, 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.
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whether inline or attachment - I have little inclination to read through
a voluminous log. You really need to peruse the logs, figure out the
questions you have after reading them and maybe a few lines from them.

Likewise, your comments and questions seem to be ranging...

If the printer driver is installed or can be installed...then really
your only problem is privileges - which would somewhat make sense from
the 'Access Denied - unable to print' message but I recall that was
pretty standard on 2.2.x if the user wasn't a listed 'printer admin'

Generally, you can add a printer using the wizard and if you can't
browse the network at home (which apparently you can't), you can either
put in an entry in lmhosts file on the Windows machine
(c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts) or simply refer to it by ip
address instead of name - where it asks you...

\\192.168.0.10\NAME_OF_PRINTER_SHARE

you should be able to test these things from command line on Windows...

net view \\192.168.0.10
PASSWORD_OF_VALID_SMB_USERNAME /USER:VALID_SMB_USER

all one line - substitute the ip address of your samba server

net use /?

will list various options

Craig