[Samba] Printing to raw cups queue from Windows XP

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Cohen
I have a little home network that uses an Epson C82 served out via Samba from an RH9 Linux box. When I set this up a year ago, the only way I could get printing to work was through a raw Cups queue. (Well, actually, I never tried anything but CUPS). It all worked well enough, except for an a

Re: [Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen wrote: Now, Craig, to your point about security=USER being as good a choice for me: I'm ready to try this. Can you explain how it would work for my family users who don't at present log on with passwords? (they are using XP). Do they fall under the guest user as th

Re: [Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen wrote: Craig White wrote: Steve Cohen wrote: OK, let me ask this question another way, short and simple: In a security=SHARE samba network, is there any way for a computer outside the workgroup to connect to and use (not talking about "see") a printer shared by samba on th

Re: [Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Cohen
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 21:20 -0600, Steve Cohen wrote: Steve Cohen wrote: OK, let me ask this question another way, short and simple: In a security=SHARE samba network, is there any way for a computer outside the workgroup to connect to and use (not talking about "se

Re: [Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen wrote: OK, let me ask this question another way, short and simple: In a security=SHARE samba network, is there any way for a computer outside the workgroup to connect to and use (not talking about "see") a printer shared by samba on that network? I've been reading

Re: [Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen wrote: Craig White wrote: I think here we come to the nub of the matter - passwords and user ids. I have other Windows boxes on the network and they are able to print on this printer without supplying a password or username. These are home computers on a home network. In smb.conf I

Re: [Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Cohen
Craig White wrote: whether inline or attachment - I have little inclination to read through a voluminous log. You really need to peruse the logs, figure out the questions you have after reading them and maybe a few lines from them. Sorry. I did peruse the log at some length, found the "Access Deni

Re: [Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-23 Thread Steve Cohen
D'OH! What a doofus I am. Let's attach the attachment, shall we? Steve Cohen wrote: Steve Cohen wrote: Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 23:41 -0600, Steve Cohen wrote: > >> Steve Cohen wrote: >> >>> I have a little home network, with a wirele

Re: [Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-23 Thread Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen wrote: Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 23:41 -0600, Steve Cohen wrote: > >> Steve Cohen wrote: >> >>> I have a little home network, with a wireless router. The main box on the ntwk runs RedHat 9.0 and Samba 2.2.7a. >>> >>&g

Re: [Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-23 Thread Steve Cohen
Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 23:41 -0600, Steve Cohen wrote: > >> Steve Cohen wrote: >> >>> I have a little home network, with a wireless router. The main box on the ntwk runs RedHat 9.0 and Samba 2.2.7a. >>> >>> I have a Win2K lapt

Re: [Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-22 Thread Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen wrote: I have a little home network, with a wireless router. The main box on the ntwk runs RedHat 9.0 and Samba 2.2.7a. I have a Win2K laptop provided to me by my employer with all the typical corporate security constraints. I can take the laptop home and access the internet from

[Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

2005-02-22 Thread Steve Cohen
I have a little home network, with a wireless router. The main box on the ntwk runs RedHat 9.0 and Samba 2.2.7a. I have a Win2K laptop provided to me by my employer with all the typical corporate security constraints. I can take the laptop home and access the internet from it through the lapt

Re: [Samba] Clients can find printer when

2004-06-06 Thread Steve Cohen
une 2004 4:53 pm, McKeever Chris wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 15:34 , Steve Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > >On Sunday 06 June 2004 11:16 am, fredex wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:23:46AM -0500, Steve Cohen wrote: > >> > This is REALLY starting to annoy me. I

Re: [Samba] Clients can find printer when

2004-06-06 Thread Steve Cohen
On Sunday 06 June 2004 11:16 am, fredex wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:23:46AM -0500, Steve Cohen wrote: > > This is REALLY starting to annoy me. I have now set up a Win98 client on > > the network. Once again I install the proper driver. Once again the > > Windows

Re: [Samba] Clients can find printer when

2004-06-06 Thread Steve Cohen
On Sunday 06 June 2004 10:14 am, you wrote: > > so - making the printer local has let you move a little further? IUf > anyone on the list can explain the error messages when connecting to a > printer via network - that woul dbe most appreciated. > > this sounds like what I had - just checking here

Re: [Samba] Clients can find printer when

2004-06-06 Thread Steve Cohen
nt to the non-printing problem here? I have read through all the troubleshooting guides in "Using Samba" by Eckstein, et al. No answers there to my condition. On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:41 pm, Steve Cohen wrote: > Thanks, Chris: > > I tried your suggestions both her

Re: [Samba] Clients can find printer when

2004-06-05 Thread Steve Cohen
and are independent of any attempt to print. None of the other samba logs describe an attempt to print, and there is nothing in the XP event viewer logs either Very frustrating. On Saturday 05 June 2004 6:24 pm, McKeever Chris wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:05 , Steve Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Samba] Clients can find printer when "browsing" but not otherwise

2004-06-05 Thread Steve Cohen
nmbd and now, I no longer saw "Access Denied", I saw "Ready", but still, all attempts to print to this printer from the Windows boxes yielded nothing. And all the auxiliary functions like "Print Test Page" from Windows timed out. Can someone please tell me