[Samba] Problem with adding printer drivers in Windows XP

[Tom]

Well, all the below tests succeeded without changing anything but I 
still cannot upload drivers from WinXP. One thing I did notice though, 
is that I cannot 'su' to a domain user; ie: 'su 
SAVAGEPHP\\administrator' fails with the message: Unknown id: 
SAVAGEPHP\administrator. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks.

Martin Zielinski wrote:
> Hi Tom!
> 
> You need appropriate rights on the windows- and the unix-side.
> 
> To find out, if you're facing a problem with the unix-rights
> (which is often the problem), you could try this:
> 
> 1. Log in directly to the drivers share and
> create or delete some files in the W32X86 directory.
> 
> On Windows:
> start -> execute -> \\nightwolf\print$
> 
> On Linux:
> smbclient \\\\nightwolf\\print$ -U 'administrator%password'
> 
> If this succeeds ... you should be able to add drivers, too.
> 
> 2. Find out on the samba server which unix-user-id is used by the smbd:
> 
>  > smbstatus
> Samba version 3.0.20b
> PID     Username      Group         Machine
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 14293   SAVAGEPHP\administrator  SAVAGEPHP\domänen-benutzer  martin   
> (192.168.3.74)
> 
> Service      pid     machine       Connected at
> -------------------------------------------------------
> print$       14293   martin        Thu May 11 08:41:56 2006
> 
> 3. Become this user on the samba server (as root):
> 
>  > su SAVAGEPHP\\administrator
>  > cd /var/lib/samba/drivers/W32x86
>  > mkdir xxx
> 
> 4. If you have a "unix-rights-problem" this does not succeed.
> Check your directory settings (also have a look at the "W32X86/2" and 
> "W32X86/3" directory.
> 
> Hope that helps
> 
> ~ Martin
> 
> Tom wrote:
>> I know this question has been asked quite a few times from the 
>> archive, but nothing in the previous posts seems to help my setup. I 
>> currently have samba 3.0.21c running on Slackware with CUPS as the 
>> printing conduit. It's setup as a PDC as can be seen from the smb.conf 
>> file below. I cannot, no matter what I've tried, get the server to 
>> allow me to add printer drivers to a printer through the printer 
>> properties dialog box. I've given myself the SePrintOperatorPrivilege 
>> rights but that didn't work. I tried putting the 'printer admin' 
>> directive in the smb.conf file and that didn't work; I know it's 
>> deprecated but thought I'd try anyway. Any suggestions would be 
>> greatly appreciated as I've been on IRC several times trying to figure 
>> this out with no success. I've also tried logging in as 'root' and 
>> 'administrator' neither of which work; my /etc/samba/smbusers contains 
>> a line: 'root = Administrator'.
>>
>> Configuration files are attached. If any other information is needed I 
>> will gladly supply it.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Tom
>>
> 
> 
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