Resubmitting, as, apparently the attachment was messed up. It is in the message at the end.
I seem to be having a great deal of trouble with cups and samba configuration. cups seems to go on and off and it works and doesn't work. I think I need some help on my samba configuration. Generally, it has worked well on another machine, but my current setup seems a bit screwy. System: FreeBSD 4.6.2; cups-1.1.15.1; cups-base-1.1.15.1_4; cups-lpr-1.1.15.1_1;cups-pstoraster-7.05.5; ghostscript-gnu-7.05_3 (installed by cups-lpr); gimp-print-4.2.1; samba-2.2.6.p2 Problem: yesterday, I could see the Unix machine on Win2k. I have two printer shares that could be seen. Today, they are not there. To log on to the FBSD machine from Win2k I get the log-on window and can connect by entering nothing and pressing enter. I can access the Printer directory, the www and tmp. But one directory, pippo, asks for a username and password but accepts none. I am running samba from rc.local with no parameters I am attaching my smb.conf I am sure I am doing something wrong. netstat -a (o;n Win2k client Active Connections Proto Local Address kForeign address Sate TCP pippo: epmap pippo:0 LISTENING .... TCP pippo:1036 biggie2:netbios-ssn TIME_WAIT UDP ... So, we know I'm connected. But no matter what username password combination I try to use, I cannot connect from Network Neighborhood. Obviously, I don't understand what the username/password use is between the machines. I probably do not have the right users set up in the correct manner on the Unix box or a user for the Unix box on Win2k. I have this set up correctly on another box, but for the life of me I do not remember exactly how or what I did to make it work. Please help. Apparently, the smb.conf file is not readable. Here it is: [global] workgroup = KITCHEN server string = Samba Server hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127. load printers = yes printcap name = cups printing = cups guest account = pcguest log file = /var/log/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user encrypt passwords = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY os level = 99 domain master = yes preferred master = yes dns proxy = no [homes] comment = "Home Directory for : %u" browseable = no writeable = yes path = /home/samba/%u valid users = %u administrator force user = %u create mask = 0644 [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no public = yes create mask = 0777 guest ok = yes writeable = no printable = yes [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes [cdrom] comment = "Unix CD-ROM" path = /cdrom guest ok = yes volume = "cdrom" [www] comment = "WWW System" path = /usr/www read only = no create mask = 0775 volume = "www_system" [pippo] comment = Phil's home dir. path = /home/pippo valid users = pippo,administrator,@smb force user = pippo force group = smb read only = no [print$] path = /tmp write list = root,guest,@ntadmin -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba