samba - Apr 1998 - Printing from NT4 public=no

Hello, 

Im using samba samba-1.9.18p4 on solaris 2.6.
Every works fine with Win95. (browsing, file service printing)
With NT file service and browsing are OK.

I was wondering if its possible to print from Windows NT4 SP3
samba print services with the option
public=no

The printing fail silently on the NT machines.
I was hoping to have a 'network password' dialog box
the same way as to connect to a file service, 
but alas none is displayed.

Is that the normal printing behaviour or a misconfiguration?


Thanks.
Daniel.




smb.conf:

   getwd cache = Yes
   debug level = 3
   security = users
   character set = iso8859-1
   workgroup = DGR
   netbios name = DGRLPR
   server string = DGRLPR Server %v
   status = yes

   printer driver file=/usr/local/samba/lib/printers.def

   preserve case = yes
   short preserve case = yes
   case sensitive = no

   wins server = 128.178.1.44
   domain master = no
   preferred master = no
   local master = no
   wins support = no

   remote announce = 128.178.41.255

   invalid users = root
   dont descend = /proc,/dev,/etc
   allow hosts = 128.178.
   mangled names = no
   guest account = nobody
   wide links = no
   create mask = 0640
   directory mask = 0750
   printing = bsd
   print command = /usr/ucb/lpr -r -P %p %s
   lpq command = /usr/ucb/lpq %p
   lprm command = /usr/ucb/lprm -P%p %j
   revalidate = false

[printer$]
   path=/usr/local/samba/printer
   public=yes
   writable=no
   browseable=yes

;Apple LaserWriter IIg
[silw2g]
   printer name = silw2g
   printer driver = Apple LaserWriter IIg
   printer driver location = \\%L\PRINTER$
   path = /var/spool/smb
   writable = no
   printable = yes
   comment = LaserWriter IIg Salle PC
   public = no
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Daniel Grandjean <grandjea@dgrsunm.epfl.ch> wrote:
> I was wondering if its possible to print from Windows NT4 SP3
> samba print services with the option
> public=no
> 
> The printing fail silently on the NT machines.
> I was hoping to have a 'network password' dialog box
> the same way as to connect to a file service, 
> but alas none is displayed.
NT will not display a password dialog box when it is connecting
to a printer.  When it gets to the same point in a printer connection
attempt that a file service connection attempt would display the
password dialog box the connection is failed instead.

The way round this is to be sure to connect a file service first
before trying to connect the printer.  This was NT had already
authenticated the user with the samba server so it doesn't have
to display the password dialog.

See also the WinNT.txt file in the samba docs directory.
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