[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

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

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 laptop provided to me by my employer with all the typical corporate

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. I have a Win2K laptop provided to me by my employer

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 wireless router. The main box on the ntwk runs

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

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
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 logs, manpages

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 see) a printer

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 that network

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 they do

[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

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

2004-06-05 Thread Steve Cohen
, 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 what I am doing wrong? Steve Cohen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL

Re: [Samba] Clients can find printer when

2004-06-05 Thread Steve Cohen
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] sent: I had a working Samba

Re: [Samba] Clients can find printer when

2004-06-06 Thread Steve Cohen
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 here and in your other email about getting rid of the Hosts Allow (which was really

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
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 system can browse

Re: [Samba] Clients can find printer when

2004-06-06 Thread Steve Cohen
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 have now set up a Win98 client on the network. Once again I