[Samba] Add printer driver difficulty

[Mark Rutherford]

Hi,
The servers are Gentoo.

It's just one of those things I would like to work.
It is not really urgent.

Joe Cipale wrote:
> Mark,
>
> What distro are you using?
> I have had good/better luck using the Printer Admin tool (since I am using FC2) to load/upgrade printer drivers. My environment is also much smaller than
> what you are using (4 machines + 3 W2K desktops-laptops)sharing 3 printers 
> via an HP 3-port print server.
>
> I find the printer admin tool to be a bit easier to manage and upgrade in 
> that regard.
>
> Joe
> Mark Rutherford wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> I am trying to upload the printer drivers to the Samba domain controller.
>> I an logging in as root, and I browse to the printer, select 
>> properties.. etc.
>> I get as far as seeing the files upload and then I am returned to the 
>> printer dialog.
>> If I hit either 'Ok' or 'Apply' I get an access denied or 'the operation 
>> could not be completed'
>>
>> I then check the logs for the machine that I am using (in this case 
>> log.mark) I do not see anything about it
>> I do see the file uploads in the log.
>> log.smbd and log.nmbd do not yield any clues either.
>>
>> configuratiuon settings:
>>
>> [print$]
>> 	comment = Printer Drivers
>> 	path = /var/lib/samba/printers
>> 	admin users = root, Administrator
>> 	write list = root, @ntadmin
>> 	force group = root
>> 	create mask = 0664
>> 	directory mask = 0775
>>
>> and the directory is ..
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  48 Feb 24 11:54 drivers
>>
>>
>> I also have these set for logging:
>> 	log level = 2
>> 	log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>> 	max log size = 50000
>>
>> Ideas anyone? Thanks!
>>
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