[Samba] WinXP print problem

[John H Terpstra]

Jean,

I am guessing from the information that you have provided that there may be a 
Samba spool directory permissions problem.

What are the permissions on /var/spool/samba? They should be set to:
drwxrwxrwt which is achieved by:

	chmod 02777 /var/spool/samba

- John T.

On Thursday 13 January 2005 02:32, Jean Lee wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using samba to acces a printer on my Linux server from Windows XP
> Home SP2 clients.
> It was working very well until yesterday evening. Since yesterday, I can
> print from the server (with cups) but I can't print from the Windows
> clients.
> And all the shared folders are still OK. There is only printing from
> Windows clients which doesn't work.
> We changed nothing on the server neither on the client side.
>
> When I try to print a test page from Windows, I get the following error:
> Unable to create a print task
>
> I tried the following things :
>
> Uninstall then reinstall printer from the windows client
> Uninstall then reinstall printer from the server
> reboot the server
>
> I always have the problem
>
> Here is a part of my /etc/smb.conf
>
> [printers]
>     comment = All Printers
>     valid users = user gp pm cm
>     path = /var/spool/samba
>     browseable = no
> # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
>     public = no
>     writable = no
>     printable = yes
>
> I don't know where to search. I tried Ethereal but it is to complex for me.
>
> Does anybody experienced this problem ? If no, where and what can I
> start to search ?
>
> THank you for any help,
>
> Jean Lee

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