[Samba] Public printing and private sharing?

[Michael Heydon]

You need a "map to guest" line, probably "bad user".

I can't see any other show stoppers in that config.

*Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
michaelh at jaswin.com.au <mailto:michaelh at jaswin.com.au>


k wayne wrote:
> hi,
> this is my first post on this list, i hope i do everything right :)
>
> so, this is my situation:
> there's a small network (about ~30 PCs), most of which are running XP
> pro, some Vista (if the latter would complicate things a lot, we could
> forget about them)
> there's a server running ubuntu, to which a Brother HL5150D printer is
> attached; printing using cups works fine, and if i set samba to
> share-level security and make the printer available to the public,
> everything works well, too.
>
> however, i need to share some folders, with some sort of protection.
> one possibility would be to password-protect each of these (if that
> can be done using samba) or to use user-level security, which i would
> prefer; however, this complicates printing quite a lot (which may be
> because of a bad configuration, of course). i want to add the printer
> once to every client PC and then print from office or other
> applications without having to log into on the samba share - even if
> it is just some guest account - , so everyone just has to hit the
> "print" button, without prior authentication.
>
> i have tried to set something up like that; here's my simple configuration file:
>
> [global]
>         workgroup = ast
>         netbios name = smbserv
>         server string = smbserv
>         security = user
>         encrypt passwords = yes
>         printing = cups
>         printcap name = cups
>         passdb backend = tdbsam
>
> [printers]
>         comment = Brother HL5150D
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         browseable = no
>         guest ok = yes
>         read only = yes
>         printable = yes
>         use client driver = yes
>
> however, i get an error when i try to print something, let's say from
> winword, which says that something went wrong and i should try to
> print a testpage. if i set security to share, printing works as
> expected, but then i don't know a way to restrict access to other
> shares.
>
> unfortunately, i do not have two servers or IPs, so i cannot run two
> instances of samba in the default port. is there a way to get what i
> want?
>
> oh, and a second question, which will be of importance only as soon as
> the first is solved :)
> is there a way to make a samba share perform as if it had a "sticky
> bit", so that users can upload files, but not alter, rename or delete
> them?
>
> thank you in advance :)
>