What version of samba are you running? Have you checked the samba logs for any info? Are you in the same groups on both W2K systems?


On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, David Blevins wrote:

> 
> My Samba printer share is behaving strangely, it mayu seem quite logical to
> someone else, but it's like voodoo to me.
> 
> I have one user fully setup in my smbpasswd file, joecool for example, and
> another one in the smbpasswd but I haven't ran that change passwd tool in it
> yet so that user can't login to any shares yet.
> 
> I have two Win2k computers that both have the joecool account, same password
> and everything.  On one computer (a desktop), i am able to login to my home
> directory and install the printer 'P1100' as a network printer, and I can
> print too, so that's great.  But on my other win2k computer (a laptop) I
> can't install the network 'P1100' printer but I can login to my home
> directory.  Same user, same rights on both machines, but completely
> different results.  The I keep getting access denied on the laptop while
> trying to install the printer.  Anyone have a clue?
> 
> But what I am really trying to do is allow any user, a guest user, to see
> and use the network printer.  I have the printer section of my smb.conf
> setup with 'yes' to everything and even added the 'public = yes' to it, but
> no luck.  I am of course restarting Samba after any changes to the smb.conf.
> Here is the printer section of my config:
> 
> [printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    path = /var/spool/samba
>    browseable = yes
> # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
>    public = yes
>    guest ok = yes
>    writable = yes
>    printable = yes
> 
> 
> And just to make things easy, I have the 'guest account' option in the
> [general] section set to joecool, so it is a valid user.  Maybe that is part
> of the problem.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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