According to the Classical Printing document, I should browse to the
printer share, right-click, choose "Properties", and say No to the
question about adding drivers. Then, at the properties window, I'll be
able to add drivers. But I can't drivers are greyed out.
The doc suggests that I use smbclient to tell if the connection is "set
up as a user with printer admin privileges". But smbclient tells me
nothing
[root@localhost samba]# smbstatus
Samba version 3.0.21b-2
PID Username Group Machine
Service pid machine Connected at
IPC$ 3968 192.168.1.83 Mon May 8 14:28:36 2006
No locked files
I tried making [print$] read only = no but that doesn't help.
I also tried guest ok = no to see if I could force it to request a
user/pass, so I could try a Samba user in write list, but that didn't
change anything either :-(

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John wrote:
According to the Classical Printing document, I should browse to the
printer share, right-click, choose "Properties", and say No to the
question about adding drivers. Then, at the properties window, I'll be
able to add drivers. But I can't drivers are greyed out.

The doc suggests that I use smbclient to tell if the connection is "set
up as a user with printer admin privileges". But smbclient tells me
nothing

[root@localhost samba]# smbstatus

Samba version 3.0.21b-2
PID Username Group Machine

Service pid machine Connected at

IPC$ 3968 192.168.1.83 Mon May 8 14:28:36 2006

No locked files

I tried making [print$] read only = no but that doesn't help.

I also tried guest ok = no to see if I could force it to request a
user/pass, so I could try a Samba user in write list, but that didn't
change anything either :-(

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Tue, May 09, 2006 at 06:27:48PM -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote:

Make sure you look at granting rights to the user. Check out 'net rpc
rights'.

What user would I be granting "rights" to?

This is a workgroup environment. No domain controller. I have been
unable to get asked for a username/password when trying to connect to
the printer.

You have to be printer admin

regards
Franz

John wrote:

Tue, May 09, 2006 at 06:27:48PM -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>
>Make sure you look at granting rights to the user. Check out 'net rpc
>rights'.

What user would I be granting "rights" to?

This is a workgroup environment. No domain controller. I have been
unable to get asked for a username/password when trying to connect to
the printer.

I have the exact same problem, i run many samba PDC and have posted to
the list
a full on speil about the problem i have with printing.

I have done all the npc rights, i have made sure print$ is writeable
but when it
goes to the "copying printer drivers" dialog that appears from the printer
wizard, i get an access denied when it tries to update the samba tdb files.

In my rpc rights i have 'DMAINNAME\root' for the printeroperator but
it doesnt
seem to hold, privs enable is set and i have tried all sorts of
combinations, in the end i have resorted to samba 3.0.10 where you can use the
printer admin definition to specify who can upload the driver

my previous post is below

Hi guys,

I am at a loss with this feature of samba in that it is soo hit or miss if
the client drivers will upload or not depending on samba version
used.

Can someone confirm that this feature does indeed work in the latest samba
release?

i have tried many setups be it ldap or tdbsam, made sure all more
groupmappings are correct, folders and permissions are correct,
etc,
Yet when i go to upload the printer driver the progress window appears to be
doing something, the logs show me writing to the print$ share and when it
gets to the end i get a nice message stating access
denied

To confirm that its not a permission on the filesystem it self if i chmod 000
the path of the print$ when i try and upload the driver it wont even attempt
to upload, windows will simply state that the operation is not
possible.

I am using the root account to upload the drivers, i make sure that im in the
domain admins group(pdbedit shows primary group SID-512), i have tried this
with enable privs on and off with the root account being a part of the
printer manage privs all of which i have no
success!

What makes this even more concerning is that at some sites with previous
versions of samba i was able to upload the printer drivers with no drama what
so ever however after upgrading to the latest version when i goto upload a
new driver or add a printer to the existing network to upload a new driver
the same problem occurs
above.

I have tried many distros and followed the examples on samba.org, read the
instructions, the tips, the trix, everything This feature has worked for
me in the past and funny enough at one stage the drivers would only upload if
i was using winxp to do the uploading on win2k networks. Now it would seem
that regardless of what i am doing this feature is broken, unless someone
else from a fresh install can shed some light on
this.

Distros used : gentoo, debian, freebsd

Thankyou for time,

Kind Regards,

Anders

Quoting Ryan Novosielski <novosirj (AT) umdnj (DOT) edu>:

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John wrote:
>According to the Classical Printing document, I should browse to the
>printer share, right-click, choose "Properties", and say No to the
>question about adding drivers. Then, at the properties window, I'll be
>able to add drivers. But I can't drivers are greyed out.
>>
>The doc suggests that I use smbclient to tell if the connection is "set
>up as a user with printer admin privileges". But smbclient tells me
>nothing
>>
>[root@localhost samba]# smbstatus
>>
>Samba version 3.0.21b-2
>PID Username Group Machine
>
>>
>Service pid machine Connected at
>
>IPC$ 3968 192.168.1.83 Mon May 8 14:28:36 2006
>>
>No locked files
>>
>>
>I tried making [print$] read only = no but that doesn't help.
>>
>I also tried guest ok = no to see if I could force it to request a
>user/pass, so I could try a Samba user in write list, but that didn't
>change anything either :-(
>>
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Do you have a [homes] share defined? Attempting to connect here first
will normally force a login. As will guest ok = no, but that may not be
desirable in your environment.

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John wrote:
Tue, May 09, 2006 at 06:27:48PM -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>Make sure you look at granting rights to the user. Check out 'net rpc
>rights'.

What user would I be granting "rights" to?

This is a workgroup environment. No domain controller. I have been
unable to get asked for a username/password when trying to connect to
the printer.

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