Adding a Linux printer to Windows XP
Phil Meyer
pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Tue Apr 10 15:35:55 UTC 2007
Phil Meyer wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> I have even configured my Linux userid/password but the error message I
>> get back from Windows is permission denied.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>
> Saw this one just the other day. Samba did not automatically create
> the spool directory. Then when I created it manually it still
> wouldn't write to it, so I made it 777 and it started to work. Weird.
>
> First off, the default spool directory is: /usr/spool/samba
> That is wrong, of course, but there it is.
> Second, no indication who should own it.
>
> I found the error in /var/log/messages:
>
> Mar 30 08:33:08 eragon smbd[27923]: '/usr/spool/samba' does not
> exist or permission denied when connecting to [lp] Error was No such
> file or directory
>
> Good Luck!
>
Forgot to add:
# ln -s /var/spool /usr/spool
will correct the problem. But the package maintainer probably needs to
correct it in the next update.
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