[Samba] printer drivers from windows 7 MMC?

[Ryan Novosielski]

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On 12/24/2010 03:32 AM, Christ Schlacta wrote:
> I found a fancy, easy (seeming) way to add printer drivers in windows 7
> since the old methods don't seem to work anymore.
> 
> if you run mmc, you can add a snapin called print management, which
> enables you to manage various things (drivers, forms, ports, and
> printers to be most important).  Problem is, I can't figure out how to
> use the "Drivers" method to add drivers.  I get a "Failed to add driver.
> Access is denied" error, can I can't figure fromwhere this error might
> be issued.  my laptop is ikari, so I tried to less
> /var/log/samba/log.ikari, but there were no errors relating to
> permission being denied..  my user is a member of the samba group
> "lpadmin", and the share has "write list = @lpadmin" and the directory
> it points to is chmod g+s and chgrp -R lpadmin.  far as I can tell I can
> write to this directory and there's no reason I shan't be able to
> accomplish this except the mysterious access denied error.
> 
> I tried adding the (Apparently deprecated) printer admin = @lpadmin
> option to the printer and print$ shares, but it didn't help.  I'll be
> removing it.  my google-fu couldn't find the replacement attribute.
> 
> so the question is..  what do I need to do?  is windows 7 incapable of
> doing this, or do I just need to somehow add the missing magic
> permission somewhere?
> 
> PS: This isn't a member of a domain, it's not currently related to my
> other domain issues, though the server will eventually be in the final,
> completed domain)

I could be on the wrong track here, but could the
SePrintOperatorPrivilege that's set with the "net" command have anything
to do with this (and if not that specific privilege, one of the others
that is in the same set). That's been the right way to delegate
permissions to a printer admin for some time, even before Windows 7.

If that's all it is, thanks for the neat trick!

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