Nevermind - I guess I need more sleep. It helps to take out the word 'default' in the lpd.conf. On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:25:33PM -0600, Amy Tanner (amy at real-time.com) wrote: > I've got a samba print server that's authenticating to a Win2K server. > Everything works great, EXCEPT... > > when the banner page prints, it prints as user nobody, unless that account > happens to have a unix account on the print server. > > From reading LPRng howto, to fix this, you put > > allow_user_setting=nobody > > in lpd.conf (replace nobody with whatever the smb process is running as) > > ..to allow the samba process to pass through the actual user since by > default root is the only user that can do that. I've tried this but it still > doesn't work. > > Any one get this to work? Any ideas? > -- > Amy Tanner > amy at real-time.com > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Amy Tanner amy at real-time.com