Greetings,
I've checked the archives and seen plenty of people having trouble printing
through Samba, but I've found none with the problem I'm having.
Here's the scenario: I've installed my Epson Stylus Color 880 using
CUPS. I can print fine from the linux box. When I setup the printer in
Samba, I can SEE the printer and from my Windows 2000 Pro SP1 box, I can
connect the printer. HOWEVER, when I open up the Printer area in Win2k and
click on the network printer, I get the error message "access denied,
unable to connect." Also, the "path" that is defined in the print areas is
chmod'ed to 777.
I can see other Samba share directories on the server and access them just
fine. Pasted at the end of this message is my smb.conf file. I REALLY
appreciate any help. If you have an alternative way to share printers, I'm
all ears. Thanks.
--
Ryan Hagan
Pacificom Multimedia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
;
; /etc/samba/smb.conf
;
; Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux
;
; Please see the manual page for smb.conf for detailed description of
; every parameter.
;
[global]
printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap.cups
load printers = yes
guest account = nobody
invalid users = root
; "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
; in this server for every user accessing the server.
security = user
; Change this for the workgroup your Samba server will part of
workgroup = PACCOM
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
; If you want Samba to log though syslog only then set the following
; parameter to 'yes'. Please note that logging through syslog in
; Samba is still experimental.
syslog only = no
; We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything
; should go to /var/log/{smb,nmb} instead. If you want to log through
; syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.
syslog = 0;
; This socket options really speed up Samba under Linux, according to my
; own tests.
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096
; Passwords are encrypted by default. This way the latest Windows 95 and NT
; clients can connect to the Samba server with no problems.
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
; It's always a good idea to use a WINS server. If you want this server
; to be the WINS server for your network change the following parameter
; to "yes". Otherwise leave it as "no" and specify your WINS server
; below (note: only one Samba server can be the WINS server).
; Read BROWSING.txt for more details.
wins support = no
; If this server is not the WINS server then specify who is it and uncomment
; next line.
; wins server = 172.16.0.10
; Please read BROWSING.txt and set the next four parameters according
; to your network setup. There is no valid default so they are commented
; out.
; os level = 0
; domain master = no
; local master = no
; preferred master = no
; What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
; to IP addresses
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
; This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
dns proxy = no
; Name mangling options
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
; This boolean parameter controlls whether Samba attempts to sync. the Unix
; password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
; /etc/samba/smbpasswd file is changed.
unix password sync = false
; For Unix password sync. to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
; parameters must be set (thanks to Augustin Luton
; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for sending the correct chat script for
; the passwd program in Debian Potato).
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
; The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
; installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
; working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' &
; The default maximum log file size is 5 MBytes. That's too big so this
; next parameter sets it to 1 MByte. Currently, Samba rotates log
; files (/var/log/{smb,nmb} in Debian) when these files reach 1000
KBytes.
; A better solution would be to have Samba rotate the log file upon
; reception of a signal, but for now on, we have to live with this.
max log size = 1000
obey pam restrictions = yes
interfaces = eth1
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
; By default, the home directories are exported read only. Change next
; parameter to "no" if you want to be able to write to them.
read only = yes
; File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
; create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
create mask = 0775
; Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
; create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
directory mask = 0775
[work1]
comment = 1st Share Directory
browseable = yes
read only = no
path = /home/samba/workarea1
public = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0775
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /var/spool/cups/tmp/
printable = yes
public = yes
writable = no
create mode = 0700
[EpsonInk]
comment = Epson Stylus Color 880
path = /var/spool/cups/tmp/
writable = yes
printable = yes
printer name = EpsonInk
