[Samba] successor of 'printer admin'

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Apr 19 13:34:47 GMT 2007


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thomas wrote:
> Hello list
> 
> last week we upgraded a 2.2 samba installation to the latest
> 3.024 release (with CUPS as printing backend).
> 
> till now we granted some users the right to cancel printer
> queues from others with 'printer admin = printadmins' in smb.conf.
> I read through the changes-list and realized that 'printer admin' 
> is now deprecated.
> 
> I read through the Samba-book, the Howto-sections but did not find
> (or maybe overlooked) what the preferred way in Samba-3.024 is, to
> grant some users 'printer admin' rights.
> I am quite confused, if this is done by 
> $ net groupmap add ntgroup='Builtin Print Operators' \
> unixgroup=printadmins rid=550 
> or by
> $ net rpc rights grant SePrintOperatorPrivilege 'printadmins'
> 
> Or am completely off the track?

Both in combination.

$ groupmap add ntgroup='PrintAdmins' unixgroup=printadmins
$ net rpc rights grant PrintAdmins SePrintOperatorPrivilege




cheers, jerry
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