Akshay Lamba wrote: > Yes I did. However, the admin username and password does not match the > SMB username and password. Post connecting the printer says unable to > authenticate. > > Riyaz Mirza wrote: >> Did you login as Administrator in windows client, you need to. >> >> */Akshay Lamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I'm sure this has been done multitude of times, somehow I don't >> seem to >> be able to get it though. I have setup a print server (well basically >> just sharing a printer) on a ubuntu box. While the printer works just >> fine on the ubuntu machine, and I have shared it using samba (pretty >> much just used the defaults in smb.conf). However, when I access the >> printer from a windows client, it is able to open the share just fine >> (post authentication), I am able to "connect" the printer to the >> windows >> box, however, it then gives me a authentication failure error. So a >> print does not go through. >> >> Any pointers would be appreciated.
I used to have a swine of a time intermittently using SAMBA to share printers like that. I ended up making the print server emulate lpd and have the windows printers configured to print to an lpd server. All the problems just blew away. Then again, maybe you have a good reason to do it the way you are doing it. Do you *need* to lock down the printer, can you not just give read/write guest access and remove all authentication ? Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
