Samba general question

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 23:13, Gordon Charrick wrote:
> I've been trying to share my printer that is connected to my linux 
> computer to my bf's windows xp machine. The two computers are connected 
> (by wireless) to a linksys router so they're on the same subnet. There 
> isn't a chance the router could be blocking the connection, is there? 
> The wireless is running on eth1 and I can ping from one machine to the 
> other.
> 
> I also have vmware running on my linux machine so I can do tests 
> locally. When I run "net view \\gmc" on my vmware guest I get a list of 
> shares and can connect to the printer and see the files in the 
> "testshare" share. If I run the same comand on my bf's computer I get 
> access denied. It's not firewall related because I'm testing it with no 
> rules set.
> 
> I'm including my smb.conf below.
> 
> [global]
>          workgroup = HOME
>          interfaces = eth1 vmnet1
>          bind interfaces only = yes
>          load printers = yes
>          printing = cups
>          printcap name = cups
>          guest account = smbprint
>          domain master = no
>          local master = yes
>          preferred master = yes
>          os level = 65
> [testshare]
>          comment = test path to tmp
>          path =/tmp
>          browseable = yes
>          guest ok = yes
>          writable = no
> [printers]
>          comment = Linux printer
>          path = /home/smbprint
>          browseable = yes
>          public = yes
>          guest ok = yes
>          writable = yes
>          printable = yes
>          printer admin = root
>          use client driver = yes
> 

Gordon,

Check the permissions on /home/smbprint.  All printer users must be able
to write/create in that directory.  I also added cups options = raw to
the printers stanza in smb.conf.

Bob...
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