[Samba] Vista to Samba maping LPT ports

John Duthie beyondgeek at gmail.com
Thu Dec 21 23:18:41 GMT 2006


On 19/12/06, Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry at samba.org> wrote:
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> John Duthie wrote:
> > I am currently testing our company's software with Vista RC-1
> > and I've run into a snag I cannot Authenticate a Printer connection to a
> > Samba server on a dos prompt
> > I can connect to the printer using the GUI for windows printing
> > But i Cannot map the printer to an LPT port
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> 2 suggestions.  (a) don't use security = share, and
> (b) use point-n-print to deploy drivers instead of mapping
> LPT ports.
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small problem with b - the software we need to print from outputs directly
to lpt ports , no driver , just raw text + PCL or FX-80 codes

I wil test with user security ...


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