Willy Offermans wrote:
Hello Richard,
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:19:04PM +0900, Richard Chapman wrote:
Hi. I have been following another thread describing problems uploading
printer drives - but I think I have a different problem.
In my case I have a Samsung CLP510 colour laser physically connected to
a Centos 5.1 X86-64 Linux box with Samba 3.0251514 (3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4
<https://192.168.0.201:10000/software/edit_pack.cgi?search=samba&package=samba&version=3%2E0%2E25b%2D1%2Eel5%5F1%2E4>).
The Printer is intended to be shared by windows boxes on the network. I
have installed the printer as a "raw" printer - so that windows clients use
their own drivers. In order to get rid of the "Access Denied" errors in the
"Printers and Faxes" status - I have put the "use client driver" directive
into smb.conf.
I was hoping that I could still install windows printer drivers on the
Linux server so that new windows client machines would not have to find
the driver elsewhere. I can't see any reason why this should not be
possible. I have created the print$ share and the folders described here:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_as_a_print_server
It looks like some parts of this wiki are rather incomplete.
The printer works fine from the clients now (if I provide the client
driver elsewhere) - but I cannot get the drivers to load on the server.
If I browse the network - from a windows client - and select the
properties of the printer within the "Printers and Faxes" folder - then
select "Advanced", and then select "New Driver" - it starts the "Add
Printer driver" wizard. I can select the driver I want and "Finish" the
wizard - but it uploads the driver to the
/windows/system32/spool/drivers folder on the local client rather than
the server.
Can anyone tell me if I am doing something wrong - or if there is
something wrong with my configuration which prevents me from uploading
the driver to the server?
Many thanks.
Richard.
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If I recall correctly, then the "use client driver" directive prohibits
the up-/download of printer drivers from the server. Please search the
net to be 100% sure. I remember there was a hint about the issue in
`man smb.conf`:
<snip>
use client driver (S)
<snip>
If this parameter is enabled for a printer, then any attempt to
open the printer with the PRINTER_ACCESS_ADMINISTER right is
mapped to PRINTER_ACCESS_USE instead. Thus allowing the Open-
PrinterEx() call to succeed. This parameter MUST not be able
enabled on a print share which has valid print driver installed
on the Samba server.
</snip>
</snip>
Although the text: "This parameter MUST not be ..." is not clear for
100% and rather difficult to read, it makes sense that having the
printer driver on the server and using the client driver at the same
time is ambiguous. Concerning the "Access Denied" errors, I do not know
what happens, after you have removed the appropriate directive in your
smb.conf.
I hope this helps.
I've found that more times than not, "access denied" on driver upload
means that the SePrintOperator privilege was not set for the user doing
the driver upload.
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/rights.html
http://blog.aplpi.com/index.php/2007/03/
Dale
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