Re: [Samba] Access Denied to Printers / Same thing here - SOLVED once (*almost)

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Zielinski
Hi! The path to your drivers is not relevant. When you connect from windows to your samba server, you are mapped (somehow) to a *nix user on the samba server. This user needs access rights on the driver directory. That's the important thing. You can check this basic settings by typing on your

Re: [Samba] Access Denied to Printers / Same thing here - SOLVED once (*almost)

2008-11-09 Thread Peter Van den Wildenbergh
Peter Van den Wildenbergh wrote: Daniel L. Miller wrote: Hi! Trying to trace down a problem with printer sharing. I don't see anything glaringly obvious with my smb.conf. I am using LDAP and CUPS. Using a Windoze client, accessing a printer I receive the friendly Access denied, unable to

Re: [Samba] Access Denied to Printers / Same thing here - SOLVED once (*almost)

2008-11-09 Thread Michael Heydon
Using a Windoze client, accessing a printer I receive the friendly Access denied, unable to connect. Checking the Samba logs, I find: Alrighty then... I think I got it... almost (*) changed in smb.conf section : [print$] path = /usr/share/cups/drivers # path = /var/lib/samba/printers

Re: [Samba] Access Denied to Printers / Same thing here - SOLVED once (*almost)

2008-11-09 Thread Peter Van den Wildenbergh
Michael Heydon wrote: You are getting close :) But not close enough yet... It is a driver related issue, you can either install windows drivers onto the samba server. This has the benefit of when ever you add the printer to a client the drivers will be installed automagically. That's the