Hi All,
  I’ve been upgrading some machines and have introduced my first Windows 7 Pro 
box to my samba PDC domain.  It involved upgrading from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora 
core 14, but everything seems to be up and running now.

  I don’t think the last problem I’m battling is related to the samba, but I’m 
not entirely sure.  I’ve got 2 printers on my window 7 pro box and I want to be 
able to print to the printers from any one of 3 other XP Pro machines all on 
the domain (along with the win7pro box). The XP boxes can add network printer 
and see the printer and install the printer.  I configured both domain and 
home/work network sharing options on win7 and configured the sharing tab of 
each printer in win7.  I also added the x86 drivers so that the XP Boxes can 
auto-grab the drivers.  This all seems to be working as evidenced by the fact 
that I could *not* add one of the printers to one of the XP machines until I 
fixed the group policy for point to print on one of the XP machines—after I did 
that I could add the printer and it must have gotten the driver from the win7 
box as it would have been nowhere else to be found.

  But my problem is that even though I can see the printer config property 
pages when I try to print (i.e. I can select printer trays and print quality 
unique to the printers)—when I actually press ‘print’ or try to print a test 
page, I always get a vague error of a failure offering me to use the 
troubleshooter which was unable to solve my problem.  I have another Win7 Home 
Premium 64bit box that *can* print to the printer via homegroup.

  So before I went bothering HP support or other printer forums (Googling left 
me dry) I thought I’d check here to see if anyone thinks the samba PDC might be 
somehow involved in authentication problems when it comes time to actually 
print.  Before the samba upgrade and the introduction of the win7pro box, both 
printers were hung off an XP Pro machine and all the other XP Pro could print 
to them, but I really suspect the win7 aspect of introducing this problem more 
than the samba upgrade.
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Craig
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