Davide Bolcioni
2004-Jun-30 09:50 UTC
[Samba] No Point and Print (no printers folder) from Windows 98 client
Greetings, running Samba 3.0.4 on Fedora Core 1, I encountered the following problem: I cannot get Point and Print to work for Windows 98 clients, while it works fine for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. I have been able to set the device mode for Windows 2000 and Windows XP using the procedure detailed here: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/printing.html#id2553332 but when attempting the same for a Windows 98 client, I see no Printers folder when connecting to the Samba server. Attempting the same with the same domain user from a Windows NT 4 server works, on the other hand. From the Windows 98 client "net use //server/print$" works and I can see from the Samba logs that it connects with the Unix user configured as printer admin in smb.conf. Configuration notes: - not using winbindd; - using smbusers, worked around bug #1279; - the Samba server and both clients are domain members; - the Windows 98 client works with file shares on the Samba server. What am I missing, and what should I look into ? Thank you in advance, Davide Bolcioni -- There is no place like /home.