[Samba] Problem with automagic Windows drivers

Ryan Novosielski novosirj at umdnj.edu
Tue May 9 22:27:48 GMT 2006


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Make sure you look at granting rights to the user. Check out 'net rpc
rights'.
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John Oliver wrote:
> According to the Classical Printing document, I should browse to the
> printer share, right-click, choose "Properties", and say No to the
> question about adding drivers.  Then, at the properties window, I'll be
> able to add drivers.  But I can't... drivers are greyed out.
> 
> The doc suggests that I use smbclient to tell if the connection is "set
> up as a user with printer admin privileges".  But smbclient tells me
> nothing...
> 
> [root at localhost samba]# smbstatus
> 
> Samba version 3.0.21b-2
> PID     Username      Group         Machine
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Service      pid     machine       Connected at
> -------------------------------------------------------
> IPC$         3968   192.168.1.83  Mon May  8 14:28:36 2006
> 
> No locked files
> 
> 
> I tried making [print$] read only = no but that doesn't help.
> 
> I also tried guest ok = no to see if I could force it to request a
> user/pass, so I could try a Samba user in write list, but that didn't
> change anything either :-(
> 
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