SAMBA PROBLEM
Tim
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Wed Sep 20 14:36:06 UTC 2006
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Randy Easley:
>> I cannot print from a winXp machine to a Fedora server? Smb.conf has
>> public = yes and guest ok = yes. On the same workgroup with no domain.
>> I can clearly see the file shares which are also public.
>>
>> Log files show WERR_ACCESS_DENIED over and over.
I can't see who wrote:
>> 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
Randy Easley:
> I do not understand? (Ignorance)
>
> If you have public and guest set to yes why couldn’t ANY windows PC
> print to a linux printer?
Simplistic explanation: The Samba configuration governs how the SMB
networking works. *If* printing *also* requires the ability to write
data to the local hard drive, the right permissions need setting there,
as well. SELinux might also play a role, if you have it enabled. You
might want to look through your SELinux settings related to Samba, CUPS
and printing.
My Samba configuration, to which I've not tried printing with for a long
time, has /var/spool/samba in the [printers] section. An educated guess
says that printing probably writes to that space, spooling data through
it along its way to the printer. Looking at the file system permissions
for that directory, I see it allows all users to read/write/execute that
directory, and the sticky bit is set to retain ownership.
Show us what you get for this command: ls -ld /var/spool/samba/
I get this: drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2006-07-25 05:41 /var/spool/samba/
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