John Oliver wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:29:20AM -0700, Michael O'Keefe wrote:
>> John Oliver wrote:
>> >I have a printer attached to a Fedora Core 5 box. I can connect to
>> the
>> >printer just fine from Windows machines. Now, I'd like to get the
>> >automagic Windows driver download working, but I'm stuck... when I
>> >right-click on the printer in the Samba server's Printer and Faxes
>> >share, drivers are greyed out. I found a couple of hints about
>> making
>> >sure that you're connecting as a user with printer admin, but Samba
>> >tells me that option is deprecated. I've tried setting Samba to
>> allow
>> >anyone or guests to be able to write. Nothing is working.
>>
>> And this is after the inclusion of the hidden share for printer
>> drivers
>> mentioned yesterday (/printer$ ??)
>
> Yes :-)
>
> The issue appears to be that, when I connect, I'm connecting as some
> kind of "guest" or anonymous user. I've tried to make the printer and
> the printer share non-public, so it would be forced to give a login /
> password dialogue, but that doesn't work... it still just lets me in
> and
> shows everything greyed out.
>
> FWIW, this is in a workgroup environment, no domian. And the XP
> machines are all Home or MCE (don't ask...), so making Samba a DC
> isn't
> going to help :-(
Many of the things that we are familiar with in file and print sharing
for Windows, don't work right with Home. I don't remember all the
details, but this may be why you are having failures. It may not work
at all with HOME.
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