[Samba] printer drivers from windows 7 MMC?

[dale at briannassaladdressing.com]

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From: Christ Schlacta lists at aarcane.org
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:10:38 -0600
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] printer drivers from windows 7 MMC?

> I didn't figure out how to add that permission.  is there a guide 
> somewhere that lists all relevant permissions and how to set them?

I believe this is what you're looking for:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetCommand.html#id2601333

Dale
> 
> turns out that a big part of the problem was related to changing the

> samba host SID.  that raises an interresting question which I'll ask
in 
> a separate post.
> 
> I still had to map drivers to printers using the command line, but
other 
> than that, it worked excellently to load drivers.
> 
> the process to map drivers is this easy:
> rpcclient -c enumprinters printserver
> rpcclient -c enumdrivers printserver
> sudo rpcclient -c 'setdriver  "" density
> 
> but because of the permission problem above I had to run the last as

> root, which meant adding a password and re-enabling samba root
account.
> 
> On 12/24/2010 08:20, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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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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