RE: [Samba] WARNING: The printer driver locationoption is deprecated
Andre, Read Chapter 6 Printing Support in Samba 2.2.x in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection document which is in your source tree as a .pdf and a .html and on the Samba web site. PCC -Original Message- From: Andre Dieball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 26 March, 2003 5:50 PM Hello After upgrade to 2.2.8-1 woody fom 2.2.7a I get (apart from other problems) the following error message: WARNING: The printer driver locationoption is deprecated As I use the Samba server only for printing, I'm not sure, what this means to me, as I have the follwoing in my smb.conf: printer driver file = /etc/samba/printers.def Any help is really appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely, Andre Dieball -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Fw: share a folder rw, but not deletable?
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Brian Wiese wrote: Is there a way in UNIX to make a folder with read+write permissions for some group of users, but only allow them to read and write to the folder... not actually delete the folder itself? In Unix the permissions (perms) of the _parent_ directory determine who can remove a sub-directory (= folder in Windows). So you can set the perms on a given directory wide open but restrict write access to its parent. Maybe this is all you need? PCC -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Automated printer driver problems
Andy, Hmm. Looks ok to me but I'm just a user not a guru. Here's a couple of things to try: - log level = 1 (for a bit of connection info in the log) - you have TWO printer admin commands (dunno if this hurts) My own print setup looks like this: ... printing = BSD printer admin = cpadmin === i.e. explicit unix account show add printer wizard = yes username map = file mapping 'administrator' to 'cpadmin' [printers] path = path to spool dir guest ok = yes guest account = guest browseable = yes printable = yes [print$] path = path to driver dir guest ok = yes guest account = guest browseable = yes read only = yes write list = cpadmin Hope something here gives you a bright idea. It _will_ work - eventually... PCC -Original Message- From: A.J.Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 21 March, 2003 11:17 AM To: Peter Carpenter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Samba] Automated printer driver problems Heres the smb.conf file I'm using (suitably sanitised...) Oh, and yes, I'm a member of the group 'Archive_adm'. Regards Andy #Start of smb.conf file [global] # general declarations for the server workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = Server socket options = TCP_NODELAY interfaces = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/24 local master = yes os level = 69 domain master = yes preferred master = yes domain logons = yes wins server = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX time server = yes map archive = yes browseable = yes lm announce = no # log file options - log by machine name, not 200k /log log file = /usr/local/samba/log/log.%m max log size = 200 # security considerations security = user encrypt passwords = yes # NOTE: we need to set this to no for Win95 clients 4.00.950a hosts allow = XXX.XXX.XXX. 127. remote announce = XXX.XXX.XXX.255/WORKGROUP guest account = nobody map to guest = Never guest ok = no domain admin group = @NT_adm add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c NT_machine -d /dev/null -g NT_machines -s /bin/false %m$ bind interfaces only = yes unix password sync = yes # ensure password changed get pushed to the NIS database... passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u ; make -s -C /var/yp # New directive to try to see if XP can log on... nt acl support = no # printer defaults load printers = yes printing = BSD print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P%p -r %s lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P%p printer admin = @NT_adm printcap name = /etc/printcap printer admin = @Archive_adm # logon paths etc. logon script = scripts\%u.bat # Win9x profile store location logon home = \\server\%u\profile\win9x # WinNT/2K/XP profile store location logon drive = p: [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /usr/local/samba/netlogon guest ok = no writable = no browseable = no [homes] comment = %u on %L volume = %u on %L writeable = yes valid users = @users nt acl support = no browseable = no [Laserjet_6MP] comment = Laserjet_6MP on %L printable = yes path = /var/spool/lpd/spooldir printer = lj_6mp browseable = yes read only = yes valid users = @users [print$] comment = Printer driver files on %L path = /usr/local/samba/printer_drivers guest ok = no browseable = no read only = yes write list = @Archive_adm directory mask = 0755 # End of smb.conf file On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Peter Carpenter wrote: To answer the easy bit first: the printer config info is stored in the .tdb files in the $SAMBA_HOME/var/locks directory. I think the most relevant ones are ntdrivers.tdb ntforms.tdb ntprinters.tdb share_info.tdb. I had a similar experience to you with the Access denied etc messages and eventually got it right by endless futzing around but still don't really know what produced the breakthrough. So keep trying - it _will_ work. If you post your smb.conf I'll see if I've got anything you haven't. -Original Message- From: A.J.Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 21 March, 2003 10:06 AM Hi, I am having a problem with automating the download of printer drivers from a Samba 2.2.8 server. We used to use the server with he following options set: use client driver = yes disable spoolss = yes However these options have now been removed from smb.conf. Following the instructions available in printer_driver2.htm (supplied in docs/htmldocs in the source), I can add a printer driver to the samba machine. To do this, I created a user called 'root' on my Win2K machine, logged on as that and then installed the driver to the server following the instructions. Running rpcclient server -U root%secret -c enumdrivers gives session setup ok Domain=[DOMAIN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.8] [Windows NT x86] Printer Driver Info 1: Driver Name: [HP LaserJet 6P/6MP - PostScript] Running rpcclient server -U root%secret -c enumprinters gives Domain=[DOMAIN] OS=[Unix
[Samba] Printing issue: lpq command
Dear Samba Printing gurus, I've got Samba 2.2.8 feeding a commercial unix print spooler where users get differing views of print queues according to their user class. Basically operator types see everything while lowly users can only see their own jobs. It doesn't appear to be possible to get this effect reliably via Samba because when an operator clicks View--Refresh his display (of 10 jobs, say) appears not only in his own printer window but also in the monitoring window of an ordinary user who only has one job in the queue. Equally, if the ordinary user refreshes his view, he sees just his one job again but now so does the operator. While trying to improve this behaviour I set lpq cache time to zero, thinking this would help. (It didn't.) But I made another discovery. With the cacheing disabled each Refresh from the Windows end (NT workstation) causes THREE calls to the lpq command script ! Finally I tried using a separate lpq command script for each user by adding %U to the script name in smb.conf and set cache time to 2 seconds to work round the three calls thing. This gives better performance but still the serious crosstalk problem remains. Anyone got any insights to offer me on any of the above? PCC -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] How do I upgrade from 2.2.5 to 2.2.8
Yep, it's real important to be able to roll back! Does anyone know exactly which .tdb files need to be copied? I suspect some of them should NOT be copied over. I just did an upgrade from 2.2.6 to 2.2.8 and DID copy over: ntdrivers.tdb ntforms.tdb ntprinters.tdb share_info.tdb did NOT copy: brlock.tdb browse.tdb connections.tdb locking.tdb messages.tdb printing.tdb unexpected.tdb This seemed to work - dunno if it's optimal. PCC -Original Message- From: Michael G. Noble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 March, 2003 5:01 PM To: Bradley W. Langhorst Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] How do I upgrade from 2.2.5 to 2.2.8 I use the method of creating a complete new install directory. If you are going to install 2.2.8, then use the directory samba.2.2.8 as the base of the install. This way you can install the new version while the old version is still running. When you are ready you can then stop the old version and start the new one. If things go really bad, you can just start the old version back up and work on fixing the new one with minimal impact on the users. Mike On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:47, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 09:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Samba List Serve Users: Is there a document or web link that follow that describes the steps to upgrade Samba from 2.2.5 to 2.2.8? The documentation on samba.org the I have read assumes that the install is a fresh install and not an upgrade. Thanks so much, Mark Roth Systems Engineer Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (304) 598-5430 x6864 I'm not aware of such a document... If you're using a system that handles packages (ie most linux distributions) then you should be able to just install the new packages. if you must install from source - (management nightmare IMHO) then you can remove the old samba stuff, keeping the conf file and your tdb files safe. Then after you install the new samba (and before you start it) put the conf file and tdb files where the new samba will expect them (depends on the options you pass to configure...) best wishes! brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- Michael G. NobleRF Magic, Inc. Senior System Administrator 10182 Telesis Ct., 4th Floor San Diego, CA. 92121 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (858) 546-2401 x207 fax: (858) 546-2402 -- There is Sanity in my Madness! -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] performance issues
Have you tried deadtime = 15 or similar in your smb.conf? -Original Message- From: Mark Le Noury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 March, 2003 7:31 AM To: Samba (E-mail) Subject: [Samba] performance issues Hi, I have compiled and am running samba version 2.2.7.a on Redhat linux 7.3. I am having some performance issues with it and was wondering if I was doing something wrong. I have noticed that if I use samba in security = server mode, every time a new connection is made to the server from the same client a new smbd process is started. It also seems as if the process only ends when the client machine is rebooted. When I use the server in security = user mode, every time a new connection is made from a different client a new process is started. It also only seems to kill the process when the client is rebooted. I end up with a lot of processes running on the fileserver and sometimes the machine locks up and complains about the max file limit being reached. I have found a workaround by increasing the file-max value in /proc/sys/fs. I was just wondering if there is a way to get the processes to die as soon as the client disconnects from the server - maybe I have omitted something when running the configure command?? I was also wondering if it is the default behaviour of samba to spawn new processes every time a connection is made? Is it possible to change this behaviour? thanks in advance, Mark Le Noury -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Win95 Win98 - NOT WORKING - NT,2000, XP are ok (reposted)
Did you change your security setting in your new Samba e.g. from share to domain? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 March, 2003 7:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: John H Terpstra Subject: Re: [Samba] Win95 Win98 - NOT WORKING - NT,2000, XP are ok (reposted) 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. John H Terpstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/03/2003 03:02:55 PM On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suggest you add a [printers] entry in your smb.conf file. You should NOT need an entry for the printer itself. My samba-2.2.x prints fine from Win95/98/Me as well as NT4/2K/XP. - John T. Hey, thanks for your efforts anyway. I don't know what to make of this. Obviously a lot of things have changed between Samba 2.0.6 and 2.2.7a, but I can't figure out why Win95 98 suddenly can't print. I think you may be right - something to do with the new Samba using the MS-RPCs... which I imagine would mean a completely different printing method. Do you think this would require a different printer driver on the 95/98 boxes?? From what I read, I had the impression that it should all still work. I'd like to hear from anyone if they are successfully printing from Win95, Win98 clients on a Solaris server and using HP printers. I'm sure many people must be successfully printing from 95/98, but maybe this problem is specific to my particular environment ? I am contemplating your suggestion about the bug message. Maybe another day or so of frustration and I will try it. again - thanks muchly for your help. -peter. Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:33:35 +0100 From: maraqas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Peter, i had a long, frunstrating web surfing yesterday night, searching for something that could apply to your case. I didn't find much at all, sorry. The only thing perhaps interesting to you could be this: http://us2.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/printer_driver2.html This doc contains a section about migrating from 2.0.x to 2.2.x I think the problem lyes in the new way samba manages printing, that is by listening the MS-RPCs (Remote Procedure Call) coming from the winNT and win2000 clients. This is done thanks to spoolss, as i figured out reading here and there across the net. Well they say spoolss supports even win9x driver calls, even if those OSes do not actually make an RPC. They also say that backward compat. is reached through use client driver and spoolss disable. With these options enabled, the samba server should act just like it was a 2.0.x I think you'd need help from the samba guys themselves, so i advice reposting this problem with a more shocking subject line (suggest to use the keyword BUG :)) so you'll be able to capture their attention. Really sorry not to have been useful to you... cheers Maq Sorry to have to repost this (didn't get any response on the first post), we really need some of the fixes of the new Samba but cannot go ahead without the support for the older machines. Need to prove that Samba is the great product that I believe it is. Hi folks - I am having printing problems with our older machines. Printing is working fine for our Windows NT, 2000 and XP clients. However, with windows 95 98, the print job gets put into the Samba spool directory (path = /var/spool/lp/tmp/samba) but doesn't make it to the printer. The print files stay there in the directory - don't get removed. Samba version is 2.2.7a, on Solaris 8 Printers are HP printers - e.g. HP 8100dn All clients including 95/98 were happily printing on a very much older version of Samba (2.0.6) printing directly from Unix to the printer is working ok Has anyone experienced this problem or have any advice on how to get my older boxes printing with the latest Samba? any thoughts welcome - no really - anything - please :-) -peter. (p.s. Just for a wild stab in the dark I tried setting the disable spoolss = yes but this stopped all printing from making it to the computer - even from the clients that were originally working.) relevant bits of conf. file included below... note that I don't have print command explicitly stated, but testparm indicates that it is configured properly... [global] printing = sysv lprm
RE: [Samba] how to view users logged in samba server??
Have you tried smbstatus? -Original Message- From: Diego S. Soares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 13 March, 2003 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] how to view users logged in samba server?? Importance: High I do not know to do. I have around 50 logados users and would like to know the names of who are logados at the moment. I thank any aid. Diego. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Transferring the printer database
Is there a way to transfer a Samba printer database from one version to another? I tried copying the .tdb files from v2.2.6 to v2.2.8pre1 but it didn't seem to work. Some sort of upgrade path is needed here - it's a lot of work to start over if you've got a lot of printers. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 March, 2003 2:08 AM Will this do what you want? # printconf-tui --Xexport printers.xml # printconf-tui --Ximport printers.xml Patrick ? Tnx for the reply but is this printconf-tui thing anything to do with Samba? The issue here is transferring things like driver mappings, default paper size, default tray and so on when you change the version of Samba. (The stuff a Windows Administrator sets in printer properties.) The driver files themselves can be easily preserved or copied but the knowledge that printer xyz is a HP Laserjet 4000 loaded with A4 paper in the lower tray is stored somewhere in those mysterious .tdb files. PCC -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Transferring the printer database
Is there a way to transfer a Samba printer database from one version to another? I tried copying the .tdb files from v2.2.6 to v2.2.8pre1 but it didn't seem to work. Some sort of upgrade path is needed here - it's a lot of work to start over if you've got a lot of printers. PCC -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] installing printerdriver without being admin under NT
The printer install feature works here with NT workstations and Samba 2.2.6 as the server. Samba is not the PDC but I don't see why that should matter. Have you uploaded the NT printer drivers as well as the W2K drivers? PCC -Original Message- From: Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 06 March, 2003 5:25 PM To: Jesko Schneider; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] installing printerdriver without being admin under NT -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesko Schneider wrote: i have NT and Windows 2000 Client served by a Samba PDC. This PDC is also CUPS-Printingserver. Now i up loaded the windows printing driver to the Samba-server into the print$ share. Under Windows 2000 i can download/install the driver with every PDC-account by clicking on the printershare, under Windows NT i need to be in the local administration group. Is there any possiblity to it under NT , which will give me the same opportunity like win2000 ? ( = download/install the driver with every PDC-account without being in the local admin group ???) As far as I rember this is not possible, because in Windows NT 4 the printer drivers are still kernel space und no normal user account has the permissions to install printer drivers. In Windows 2000 this bug/feature has been circumvented by moving the printer drivers to user space... I think want you want is not possible, but I may be way off mark her... *g* Cheers Nicki - -- Linksystem Muenchen GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schloerstrasse 10 http://www.link-m.de 80634 Muenchen Tel. 089 / 890 518-0 We make the Net work. Fax 089 / 890 518-77 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com Comment: Keys at: https://www.link-m.de/pgp iQA/AwUBPmd2Y+s1nPm17iBDEQKanwCfWRRW3r2vHhEEx9/SkMKhxC+6COMAnAjr lpaQvRmAe5h5duoD5NnnARH3 =FuI6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Adding printer stops with Operation could not be completed
Tor, For what it's worth I finally got the Add Printer wizard working with Samba 2.2.6 at the Unix end and Windows NT as the client. But it was a hell of a struggle! Don't know if it works with Samba 2.2.5 and/or Windows XP. BTW I don't see an add printer command in your smb.conf extract - don't you need that? Regs PCC -Original Message- From: Tor Bechmann Sørensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 03 March, 2003 5:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Adding printer stops with Operation could not be completed I am still hoping that someone might have an answer to my problem, as stated below. Since my last post I have tried the all windows OS versions bundle driver from HP. It apparently installed, the printer property panel, sharing, additional drivers showed all drivers as installed (X86), but on the server actually only windows2k/Xp was present. In addition any computer which installed the printer now crashed explorer.exe every time a printing operation was tried. So I erased the drivers, and uninstalled the printer in winXP, and tried with default devmode = yes. Now printing doesnt cause crashing, but the printer property in windowsXP still shows all drivers installed, and still the win95/98 drivers are actually not there. I have included my previous post below, FYI. Regards Tor Bechmann Sorensen When trying to add the drivers downloaded extracted from HP (lj456ps.inf from lj632en.exe) I get the following message: Unable to install HP LaserJet 5P/5MP Postscript, Windows NT 4.0 or 200, Intel driver. Operation could not be completed. I also tried installing win95/98 drivers. In this case some files are copied but then I get the equivalent of the above message for 95/98. I am adding them from a windows XP machine. I am loggin onto the samba shares with my account which is in the staff group on the server. When I try to change some settings in the properties, like hold mismatched documents I get an access denied error message. Ive set up my smb.conf like this (relevant lines only): [global] printer admin = @staff [print$] path = /var/prndrv guest ok = no browseable = yes read only = yes write list = @staff /var/prndrv looks like this drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 03:07 W32ALPHA drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 03:08 W32MIPS drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 03:08 W32PPC drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 05:18 W32X86 drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 1 20:43 WIN40 and /var/prndrv itself has same ownership/permissions. I am using samba 2.2.5. The host specific log noodless.log (noodless is the win client i use to add the drivers from), shows no error messages. It does give a lot of messages, too much to quote here, but none of them are informative to me. Help would be appreciated Regards Tor Bechmann Sorensen -- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Separate mailing list for printing problems ?
Guys, Is there any chance of getting a separate mailing list just for Printing issues e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Printing is a world of its own within Samba, at least once you get past the very basic stuff. And there's _so_ much traffic in the main samba list now... PCC -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
