[Samba] WinXP print problem

[John H Terpstra]

On Thursday 13 January 2005 08:41, William R. Knox wrote:
> I believe that should be 01777, should it not?

Argh! You are so correct! Why is the '2' key so close to the '1' key? :-P

Sorry for trigger finger buggy advice.

- John T.

>
> 			Bill Knox
> 			Lead Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
> 			The MITRE Corporation
>
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, John H Terpstra wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:35:14 -0700
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] WinXP print problem
> >
> > 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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John H Terpstra
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Author:
The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556
Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216
Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971
Other books in production.