On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:36:54PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to print from Windows to a printer connected to a Linux machine.
just installed Samba, and printing is no problem > What I have discovered, is that unless the spool directory has permissions 777, Windows cannot print to the Linux machine. [sorry had to reformat your posting, the rest got lost; you really should wrap long lines:] It seems strange that the modes get reset at bootup, can't help there. But 777 seems a bit overdone, at my site it works with more restrictive (though default) protections like: $ ls -ld /var/spool/lpd drwxrwsr-x 6 lp lp 1024 Mar 6 1999 /var/spool/lpd $ ls -ld /var/spool/lpd/dj-draft drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 1024 Jan 14 03:49 /var/spool/lpd/dj-draft $ ls -l /var/spool/lpd/dj-draft total 3 -rw------- 1 lp lp 0 Jan 14 1999 control.lp -rw------- 1 lp lp 5 Jan 14 03:48 lp -rw------- 1 lp lp 28 Jan 14 03:49 status.lp -rw------- 1 lp lp 5 Jan 14 03:48 unspooler.lp I'm using LPRng, but in /etc/smb.conf I filled in bsd like: ; ; /etc/smb.conf [global] printing = bsd printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes guest account = nobody invalid users = root mind the guest account here. -- groetjes, carel
