On 2008-01-28, wrote hajhouse: > On 2008-01-28, wrote Charles McLaughlin: > > Henry House wrote: > > >In fact, I've determined that printing from clients works just fine with > > >authentication (password and username set in /etc/samba/smbpasswd. So my > > >issue is really just how to make samba accept jobs from unauthenticated > > >users. > > > > Try adding this to the printer stanza: > > > > guest ok = Yes > > Thank you! That was the exactly the solution I was looking for.
To follow up on this: printing without authentication via SMB works perfectly from my Linux client (xubuntu); i can browse the SMB network using the distro-provided printer-configuration GUI, select the printer, configure it using the generic postscript driver (lpd on the server filters it through hpijs as the printer is PCL-only), and create and use a CUPS queue. My housemate, however, can't locate the printer under Windows XP using the provided wizard for "setting up a network printer". The expected share HOME/SAMBA/xerox (the name of the printer as shown on my machine) does not appear in the wizard's network browser; entering it manually also failed. I don't have any idea how to help her, having never used XP (or any Windows at all for more than a few minutes here and there). It seems likely to me that the SMB server is configured fine and that this is a Windows problem or an ignorance-of-Windows problem, but i can't rule out a misconfiguration of the server that Linux tolerates but XP does not. Suggestions would be welcome. -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system frequently rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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