-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12 Feb 2003, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> Humm.. I see. In the smb.conf man page it explains that the "Access > Denied; Unable to connect" error occurs when the printer is considered a > local one (because of local drivers) and the user trying to access the > printer has Administrative rights. This happens even if a user belongs > to the "Users" group in Windows 2000 (locally). But if the drivers are > on the server there should be no problem. > > Am I right to say that if one uses a print$ section (even if there are > no drivers per say on the server) then administrative users will not get > the "Access Denied; Unable to connect" error, since Windows 2000 > considers it a Network printer? no. print$ is just a file share that where windows clients can download the drivers from after they have been installed on the Samba host. > Final point I just realized, is that even if you get this error you can > still print on the samba printer, but you won't be able to see it's > status. Yup. cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "You can never go home again, Oatman, but I guess you can shop there." --John Cusack - "Grosse Point Blank" (1997) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+U8XrIR7qMdg1EfYRAjdJAJ9gKVn0/D6X/HKZXmw1lma6fXYdpgCfX/Fk lUlOZlqy9FpjnGhFdxUMZ4s= =qCtJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
