[Samba] APW New Driver Greyed Out

Bardo Wolf b.wolf at uib.de
Wed Feb 27 07:20:32 GMT 2008


Hallo,

Rights/printer management changed in samba 3.???

Check in smb.conf

enable privileges = yes

and try for example

net -S XXXX -U root rpc rights grant 'wheel' SePrintOperatorPrivilege

bardo

jhall at vandaliamo.net schrieb:
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
> 
> I have done this before, but  for the life of me cannot get it to work today.
> 
> I am trying to setup SAMBA to allow non-technical users (one per site) to
> add printer drivers as needed.
> 
> I am running Samba 3.0.24.  Following are the relevant entries from smb.conf.
> 
> # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name
>         pid directory = /var/run/
>         workgroup = BACKUPS
>         netbios name = Backup
>         domain master = Yes
>         time server = yes
>         server string = Jefferson City Backup Server Number 1
>         username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/user.map
>         log level = 3
>         pritner admin = hallja, at wheel,root
>         use client driver = No
> 
> [STCLRI7500]
>         use client driver = No
>         comment = St. Charles Regional Office Copier
>         browseable = Yes
>         printable = Yes
>         guest OK = Yes
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         printer = STCLRI7500
>         printer admin = @wheel,hallja,root
> 
> 
> [print$]
>         comment = Printer Driver Download Area
>         use client driver = No
>         path = /var/spool/samba/drivers
>         browseable = Yes
>         guest ok = Yes
>         read only = Yes
>         admin list = root,hallja, at wheel
>         write list = hallja, at wheel,root
> 
> When I click on the Advanced Tab, the New Driver box is greyed out.  From
> what I have read, this is a permissions problem, but I have been unable to
> find the problem.
> 
> Using myself as an example, I log into the server and my Windows user name
> is mapped to hallja.  hallja is a member of the @wheel group.  hallja is
> listed in the smbpasswd file.  I have also tried mapping my Windows
> username to root without any success.  Mapping myself to hallja and root
> yield the same result.
> 
> The directory /var/spool/samba/drivers exists, and within that directory,
> I have created W32X86.  Permissions on this folder are root:wheel
> rwxr-xr-x.
> 
> Looking through the logs, I did not see any obvious errors. I have bumped
> the logging up to level 5.  Is there anything specific in the logs I
> should be looking for?
> 
> And, what else should I be looking at?
> 
> Thanks in ad
> 


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