Peter, I'm not a Samba guru so am not the one to tell you the difference between Samba 2.0 and Samba 2.2. I'm struggling myself to get printing to work from various Windows flavours with Samba 2.2.6 in "server" security mode on various unix flavours.
My guess is that your problem is just authentication i.e. the password server is rejecting your old Windows boxes, perhaps because they are sending the password in clear and not encrypted like the modern Windows. If so you can put "map to guest = Bad User" in the [global] section of smb.conf and they will be let in as 'nobody'. This is slack security to be sure - but it works. You then have to check that 'nobody' can print from the spool directory. This can fail because 'nobody' has a weird UID or because there is no read access to one of the directories in the path. PCC -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 16 March, 2003 10:32 PM Our setup is peer to peer, rather than a domain setup. So security is set to "server" Generally though, we are using the same conf. file for this new Samba as the one we had (have) in production (on Samba 2.0.6). So I guess what I need to know is what has changed in regards to printing with Win95, 98 from 2.0.6 to 2.2.7a ? thanks -peter. Peter Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 14/03/2003 09:45:28 PM Did you change your "security" setting in your new Samba e.g. from "share" to "domain"? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried adding the [printers] section to my conf file as John suggested, but this didn't solve the problem. Still able to print from NT, 2000, XP and not from Win95, 98 just recapping - am able to print from all clients with the old version (2.0.6) which we are still using in production With the new Samba (2.2.7a) the file sharing is fine, but printing only works for NT,2000,XP With Win95 & Win98 only, the file gets put in the spool directory but doesn't seem to get sent from the spool directory to the printer. (or picked up by the printer - however it works...) Any idea if Win95, 98 printing is treated differently to the newer OS's ? thanks for any thoughts. see below for other details... -peter. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
