SAMBA Printer woes

Sundar plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 5 Jan 2003 08:25:50 -0700


Nope. It didn't change a thing. I should also note that I am able to print
to the printer without a problem. But I don't see the jobs (and cancel them)
from win2k priner GUI.

-Sundar

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Buechler" <peter.buechler@cox.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: SAMBA Printer woes


> I am no SAMBA expert I'm afraid. But I think that the user name and
password
> are not sent when you do the printing. That is why it is rejecting invalid
> user "nobody" which is the default used if a guest user ID is not defined.
So
> try adding "guest ok = yes" as a line in the [printers] section, then
restart
> smbd and nmbd (depends on your distribution, probably you can type
> "/etc/init.d/samba restart" or something similar). Let us know what
happens.
>
> On Saturday 04 January 2003 09:01 am, Sundar wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to access the printer on my linux server from Win2K, but I
get
> > the following error
> >  "ACCESS DENIED, UNABLE TO CONNECT"
> >
> > On WIN2K.log
> > [2003/01/04 08:30:05, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(863)
> >   authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody
> >
> > I have logged in to win2k with the user name/password, which is also the
> > right combination for samba. I have successfully mounted a samba share
on
> > win2k with that username and password.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Sundar
> >
> >
> > smb.conf
> >
> > ######################################
> > # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
> >
> > # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
> >
> > # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too
> >
> > # many!) most of which are not shown in this example
> >
> > #
> >
> > # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
> >
> > # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
> >
> > # for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you
> >
> > # may wish to enable
> >
> > #
> >
> > # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
"testparm"
> >
> > # to check that you have not many any basic syntactic errors.
> >
> > #
> >
> > #======================= Global Settings
> > =====================================
> >
> > [global]
> >
> > path = /home
> >
> > smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> >
> > domain master = yes
> >
> > printing = lprng
> >
> > dns proxy = yes
> >
> > netbios name = snoopy
> >
> > netbios aliases = snoopy
> >
> > encrypt passwords = yes
> >
> > name resolve order = hosts dns bcast
> >
> > # valid users = sundar,janet,@users
> >
> > security = user
> >
> > socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> >
> > bind interfaces only = no
> >
> > printcap name = /etc/printcap
> >
> > announce as = Samba Server
> >
> > max log size = 0
> >
> > interfaces = eth0
> >
> > domain logons = yes
> >
> > # ssl ca certfile = /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
> >
> > server string = Samba Server
> >
> > local master = yes
> >
> > workgroup = ESARAVANA.COM
> >
> > log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> >
> > netbios name = snoopy
> >
> > load printers = yes
> >
> > username map = /etc/samba/user.map
> >
> > lock directory = /var/lock/samba
> >
> > [homes]
> >
> > writable = yes
> >
> > valid users = sundar,janet,@users
> >
> > comment = sweet home
> >
> > [samba]
> >
> > path = /samba
> >
> > writable = yes
> >
> > comment = samba share on snoopy
> >
> > valid users = sundar,janet
> >
> > [printers]
> >
> > comment = All Printers
> >
> > path = /var/spool/lpd/lp0
> >
> > browseable = no
> >
> > printable = yes
> >
> > public = yes
> >
> > writable = no
> >
> > create mode = 0700
> >
> > [hp]
> >
> > path = /var/spool/lpd/lp0
> >
> > printer name = lp0
> >
> > writable = yes
> >
> > public = yes
> >
> > printable = yes
> >
> > print command = lpr -r -h -P %p %s
> >
> >
> >
> > ######################################
> >
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