Hello Samba Gurus:
I have a unusual printing problem on a Samba server (version
samba-1.9.18p7) on a Solaris 2.6 server.
Basically I had 2 Solaris 2.5.1 machines that were retired when this new
machine was deployed. Each individual machine had Samba shares and printers
on it individually. Those file systems and printers were then duplicated on
the new server. The version of Samba was the same (samba-1.9.18p7) on the
previous machines.
Prior to our cut-over, all users were able to print to the Samba printers
withour ever entering a password for the resource. Now all machines
NT/95/98, require the user to enter their NIS password before using the
printing resource every time! This gets the users a bit annoyed when they
have a number of print jobs to send. So in order to get our users a work
around, I had them mount their home directories on thier desktop on logic
drive H:\. This seems to resend the username and password information upon
printing requests and forwards it to the server.
So my question is, why does the user have to enter his NIS password for the
resource? Doesn't the NT/95 desktop send the Windows login information and
password (we have clear-text passwords turned on) to the server by default?
Why does the resource then need the password on every use?
In addition we have some NT4.0SP3 clients that get the following message
when attempting to login to the share we get:
The account is not authorized to login from this station.
Prior to the cutover, users could print without the hassle of passwords.
The same situation is also true for Guest access shares.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
The following is a snip from the smb.conf file:
# Jamey Strauch 5.27.98
#
#
#
#
[global]
; security set to user to make print jobs come out
; with user name on banner pages 12/7/98 -jeffry
; security = server
security = user
; security = share
netbios name = san-jose
netbios aliases = svlhome1 arbhome1
; netbios alias = arbhome1
; password server = vashon hqfinsvr1
password level = 2
server string = BEA Samba Server
workgroup = BEACORP
guest account = samba
encrypt passwords = no
homedir map = auto_home
guest ok = yes
;os level = 32
os level = 65
browseable = yes
config file = /usr/local/samba/smb.conf
status = yes
log level = 1
log file = /usr/local/samba/log.smb
getwd cache = yes
read prediction = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
share modes = yes
locking = yes
strict locking = yes
keepalive = 30
dead time = 15
lock directory = /var/spool/locks
printing = sysv
lpq cache time = 0
domain master = yes
domain logons = yes
local master = yes
wins support = yes
# Jamey Strauch 5.27.98
#
#
#
#
[global]
; security set to user to make print jobs come out
; with user name on banner pages 12/7/98 -jeffry
; security = server
security = user
; security = share
netbios name = san-jose
netbios aliases = svlhome1 arbhome1
; netbios alias = arbhome1
; password server = vashon hqfinsvr1
password level = 2
server string = BEA Samba Server
workgroup = BEACORP
guest account = samba
encrypt passwords = no
homedir map = auto_home
guest ok = yes
;os level = 32
os level = 65
browseable = yes
config file = /usr/local/samba/smb.conf
status = yes
log level = 1
log file = /usr/local/samba/log.smb
getwd cache = yes
read prediction = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
; Printers are appended after this point automatically
[sj-accounting]
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
comment = B&W in San Jose #1, 4th Floor, NW (aka sjc1-nw4)
path = /var/spool/samba_lp/sj-accounting
[sj-fcp]
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
comment = B&W in San Jose #1, 2nd Floor, SW (aka sjc1-sw2)
path = /var/spool/samba_lp/sj-fcp
[sj-fcp-color]
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
comment = COLOR in San Jose #1, 2nd Floor, SW (aka sjc1-sw2c)
path = /var/spool/samba_lp/sj-fcp-color
[sj-prof-color]
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
comment = COLOR in San Jose #1, 2nd Floor, NE (aka sjc1-ne2c)
path = /var/spool/samba_lp/sj-prof-color
share modes = yes
locking = yes
strict locking = yes
keepalive = 30
dead time = 15
lock directory = /var/spool/locks
printing = sysv
;printcap name = /usr/local/samba/lib/printcap
lpq cache time = 0
domain master = yes
domain logons = yes
local master = yes
wins support = yes