<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7650.28"> <TITLE>RE:SAMBA PROBLEM</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I do not understand? (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">gnorance) </FONT></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">If you have public and guest set to yes why couldn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">t ANY windows PC print to a linux printer?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">H</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ere is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">the error in smbd.log</FONT></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Printing/nt_printing.c:nt_printing_init(383)</FONT></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">n</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">t_printing_init: error checking published printers: WERR_ACCESS_DENIED</FONT></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Thanks</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> again</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</FONT></SPAN></P> <BR> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:29 -0500, Randy Easley wrote:</FONT></I></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> I cannot print from a winXp machine to a Fedora server? Smb.conf has </FONT></I></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> public = yes and guest ok = yes. On the same workgroup with no domain. </FONT></I></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> I can clearly see the file shares which are also public.</FONT></I></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Log files show WERR_ACCESS_DENIED over and over. </FONT></I></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> </FONT></I></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">----</FONT></I></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">make sure that the 'user' printing (there is a user even if it is a 'guest' - it would be whichever user guest is being mapped to) has write privileges to the 'spool' directory that you created in smb.conf</FONT></I></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">see</FONT></I></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/CUPS-printing.html#cups-exam-simple"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/CUPS-printing.html#cups-exam-simple</FONT></U></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">in the example shown above...</FONT></I></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">chmod 777 /var/spool/samba -R</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN></P> </BODY> </HTML>