[Samba] printer drivers - Add Printer Wizard disabled

[Lukasz Szybalski]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Joshua Swink <joshua.swink at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm following along in the guide, trying to make printer drivers
> available from Samba. But when I right-click on a printer in Windows
> XP and select the "properties" tab, it's disabled:
>
> http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=BMeeHijW2w%2FyTvDsjpQbEQ%3D%3D
>
> So how do I enable this so the client can upload the drivers? So far I
> have tried:
>
> * Add the name of the user as "printer admin = username" in smb.conf.
> However, testparm told me that "printer admin" was deprecated. Also it
> didn't work.
> * I wasn't sure if I was connected as a guest, so disabled all "guest
> ok = yes" settings. However, this didn't prompt Windows to pop up a
> login dialog and the printer wizard remains disabled.
>
>
> Here is the output of smbstatus. It shows the machine I was connected
> from. smb.conf contains "printer admin = pmoose" in the [print$]
> section, yet I still can't upload the driver.
>
> ==CUT===================================================
> root at print00:/etc/samba# smbstatus
>
> Samba version 3.0.28a
> PID     Username      Group         Machine
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Service      pid     machine       Connected at
> -------------------------------------------------------
> IPC$         16232   pmoose1       Tue May 27 23:38:06 2008
>
> No locked files
> ==CUT===================================================
>

as a temorary workaround try using:

force user = myusername

myusername should be somebody that has privillages to write to samba
driver directory..

Lucas
http://www.lucasmanual.com/mywiki/SambaDomainController