I've been lurking for a while but I'm still here... I was just
wondering how the heck you set passwords for a shareable resource in
Samba. My inet shop's printer is connected to our Linux server and it
prints properly, only thing is a lot of lusers with no patience at all
keep flooding it with print jobs... I had to make a root-alias account
that does lprm - to purge all these stray print jobs. The only real
solution I could think of was to add a password to the printer so these
impatient lusers would stop their nonsense and talk to one of our
employees whenever they needed to print.
However, I can't seem to figure out how Samba puts passwords on
resources. Security is user. I created a new account and created a
samba password for it ('smbprint'). I placed this account name in the
smb.conf area describing the printer (users = smbprint), and then
restarted samba, but my M$ clients can still print without a password.
I got the idea of doing this from reading smb.conf(5), but either
something's wrong with it or with my understanding of the man page. The
rest of the documentation for samba is so poorly organized that I can't
seem to find anything that might be able to help. Can anyone tell me
how this is supposed to be done?
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University of the Philippines Diliman
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