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I installed a printer, HP DeskJet 6122, which has no Ethernet device inside. In Windows, I use a local port with address \\darkstar\hp6122. The printer work, but I can see it only in Windows menu "Fax and Printers", not in the share resource of Samba, even if I set my smb.conf with "load printers" and, in [printers]. "browseable = yes" Is it all ok? Thanx M. --

In smb.conf-sample I read: #====== Share Definitions====== [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print guest ok = no writable = no printable = yes Which difference there is between "public = yes" and "guest ok = yes"? Is it necessary to write both there lines to

I have a (mostly) windows environment into which I am attempting to integrate a SAMBA based printer server (Solaris 2.5.1 SPARC). I'm running SAMBA 1.9.18p10. I need the print server to do two things: 1. Perform as local network browser/WINS server for the local subnet it is on (10.255.8.128/27) 2. Register itself and clients on it's subnet with the browsers/WINS servers/whatever

hi, I have configured samba in redhat linux 9.0 with windows xp client machine. i m not getting the share option when right clicking the windows drive after logging into the domain. so please help me guys. if i want to send the config file please inform me. the main prob is i m not able to access the two windows machine drive logged into the domain.kindly help me.. thanx with advance. -- with

Hello group, I am trying to configure ldap backend to samba. My samba and ldap machines are on different machines. I am using samba3.0.22 and openldap-2.3.11. I got two smb.conf files. One in /etc/samba/smb.conf and another in /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.22/examples/LDAP/smbldap-tools-0.9.1/smb.conf. Now the problem is when iam using 2nd smb.conf, smbclient is showing the share info. for any

Hi, sorry if this question is worn out but I have set up a machine running Fedora core 1 with samba 3 and am trying to make my Samba the PDC I can see my domain GREENTEST from my network places but I am having a problem joining the domain. I am sure I am missing something from the security side. Could someone please help. This is my smb.conf file. [global] workgroup = GREENTEST

Hello all samba users and programmers, Since I changed my system and reinstalled samba funny things happen in my net. I used to work with a Gentoo system and now I've got installed a Knoppix 3.2 Debian, but by now I don't think it's interesting for the problem I've got. What I did was: - install samba 3.0.0-final - copy the old smb.conf file to the path in the new system

Hi to all, I'm a newbie installing and configuring samba/ldap and so on... I'm looking for help! :) I have a small network: ? hosts: - melo2 (WinXP Home) - melo3 (WinXP Professional) - melo4 (Debian) ? on melo4 I created 4 users using "smbldap-useradd": - alice, bob, charles, dana - I alse created a group "office" using "smbldap-groupadd" and added those

Hello, I?ve been trying to solve a problem which i?m pretty sure it?s a "newbie problem"... I?ve installed Samba 2.0.7 on a Red Hat 7.1 machine, configured a small smb.conf file, updated the Windows registry with the "plain text passwords", and reviewed the DIAGNOSTICS.TXT about 10 times, every time, steps 1 - 7 work fine but step 8 (net view \\SambaServerName) fail. Also,

Here is dump from testparm and our smb.conf ... Please check it and tell what you think could be the problem... Thanx... Julio Rojas Universidad Ferm?n Toro jroas@uft.edu.ve ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Edward Shapiro" <David.Edward.Shapiro@btitele.com> To: "'Julio Rojas'" <jrojas@uft.edu.ve> Cc: <samba@samba.org> Sent: Friday, February

Greetings all! I have installed 3.0.5 on a Fedora Core2 systems with a hand-built kernel and I seem to have things mostly running. I do have some questions that searches have been unable to produce an answer to. Hopefully, someone here can help. When I log on to the domain with an XP system(not SP2, yet), it takes forever. It stops at "Loading/Saving your profile" for

I must be missing something here. I am trying to set up a Samba share called Samba on \\Spear (as my win2k sees it). However, I intermittently get the following errors when I try to access: SAMBA Not Accessible. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available -or- \\Spear not accessible. The network path was not found I remember getting welcomed to the SAMBA workgroup,

Hi, Here's my smb.conf file: [global] workgroup = MYGROUP server string = Samba Server hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. load printers = yes log file = /var/log/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY dns proxy = no [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writeable = yes [printers] comment = All Printers path =

Hello everybody, I'm experimenting with samba 3.0 but something is not very clear to me, especially the user entries in the OpenLDAP server. On my samba server, I configured NSS_LDAP to lookup passwd, group and shadow entries. Now I have to add some entries to my LDAP: uid=Administrator and uid=nobody. According to http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb/smb-ldap-3-howto.html a user with uidNumber 0

i currently have a samba pdc, samba bdc and samba member server all running samba-3.0.23c-1.fc5. up until the 3.0.22 releases, i never had any problems with users authenticating to member servers. problem now is, a user from windows xp professional (which is part of the domain) can auth to the pdc and bdc, but not to the domain member server. the same thing happens from windows xp home (even

Sorry to post again, but this doesn't seem to be showing on the news server. "Jon Fanti" <jon.fanti@stoopid.me.uk> wrote in message news:... > Hi, > > I have a samba PDC running at home as the domain "WONDERLAND". I have a > Windows 2000 SP4 machine and a Windows XP SP1 machine. The Windows 2000 > machine will join and allow user logins to the domain

Hi,good morning every one. I configured a samba server on linux system,when I test the samba server by 'smbclient -U% -L localhost',the wrong message is :tree connect failded:ERRSRV-ERRbadpw(bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid). On the other hand,when I visit the samba server by Win2000 professional client,I can see the icon of the machine which

hi, i have a problem when i try to print from my w2k client to samba 3.0.2a-suse (cups is running). Samba is running and I?m able to share the home-directories from the w2k - client. But if I try to connect to the printers on my Samba server with smbclient //linux/canon_s750 -U root -P I get the message: Failed to open /secrets.tdb As root the message is: ERROR: Unable to fetch machine password my

I have a samba server running 3.0.4 on a true 64 unix, the problem I have with this is that sometimes some users can't log-on, so I decided to upgrade to the new version.I have configed it so that their windows login is used to authenticate them, all users have accounts on the unix but the passwords differ. I never changed the config file, but I keep getting these messages: [2006/12/07

Hi there, I ran 2 years a perfect samba 2.2.12 on a suse 8 machine, acting as a pdc with w2k-clients. Printing was done with raw-printing over smb to cups (client-side drivers). The old dns-name was "server.localnet", the netbios-name "server". After changing my internal dns-system to "*.example" there is no access to my printer (hp photosmart 1000)