Hello, I'm a samba novice ;( Saw your "detailed" responses to another newbie questions so I thought I give you a shout :) Here is my setup: I've got 2 Linux boxes. One is running Ypserv and handles the authentication, the other is a 486 33mhz running ypbind(slave) and it is my printserver. The print server is also running 1.9.18 samba release as a daemon (smbd -D). It has two printers attached via parallel ports and each is shared service.. I know this b/c when I do *smbclient -L "myhostname"* , they come up as shared clients. So each authenticated user can actually mount their " \" directory.. They don't actually have accts on the printserver(don't have the disk space). I've got 10 NT 4.0 boxes which need to print to these shared printers.. However, printing only occurs when I "physically" mount the home directory via "\\hostname\home_dir". I want samba to offer the network printers as a share device to each authenticated user automatically. Should be transparent to the user.. How do I do this? Please be advised that Ialso want a secure network.. I don't want everyone to utilize these printers... I've attached the output of "testparm" for your review. Thanks in advance.. -- Alfred ________________________________________________ FAMU-FSU COE ASME Webmaster http://www.eng.fsu.edu/~green green@eng.fsu.edu agreen@scri.fsu.edu _________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- Load smb config files from /etc/smb.conf Processing section "[homes]" Processing section "[printers]" Processing section "[lphp]" Processing section "[lpep]" Loaded services file OK. Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions # Global parameters debuglevel = 2 syslog = 1 syslog only = No protocol = NT1 security = SERVER max disk size = 0 lpq cache time = 10 announce as = NT encrypt passwords = No update encrypted = No getwd cache = Yes read prediction = No read bmpx = Yes read raw = Yes write raw = Yes use rhosts = No load printers = Yes null passwords = No strip dot = No interfaces = bind interfaces only = No networkstation user login = No password server = mechrs1 socket options = TCP_NODELAY netbios name = netbios aliases = smbrun = /usr/bin/smbrun log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m config file = smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd hosts equiv = preload = server string = Samba Server printcap name = /etc/printcap lock dir = /var/spool/samba/lock root directory = / default service = message command = dfree command = passwd program = /usr/bin/smbpasswd passwd chat = *old*password* %o\n *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed* passwd chat debug = No valid chars = workgroup = @ME230 username map = character set = logon script = logon path = \\%N\%U\profile logon drive = logon home = \\%N\%U remote announce = remote browse sync = socket address = 0.0.0.0 homedir map = announce version = 4.2 max log size = 50 mangled stack = 50 max mux = 50 max xmit = 65535 max packet = 65535 name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast packet size = 65535 password level = 0 username level = 0 keepalive = 0 deadtime = 0 time offset = 0 read size = 16384 shared mem size = 102400 coding system = client code page = 850 os level = 0 max ttl = 14400 max wins ttl = 259200 min wins ttl = 21600 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 dns proxy = No wins support = No wins proxy = No wins server = preferred master = No local master = Yes domain master = No domain logons = No browse list = Yes unix realname = No NIS homedir = No unix password sync = No time server = No ole locking compatibility = Yes printer driver file = /etc/printers.def # Default service parameters comment = copy = include = exec = postexec = root preexec = root postexec = alternate permissions = No revalidate = No default case = lower case sensitive = No preserve case = No short preserve case = No mangle case = No mangling char = ~ browseable = Yes available = Yes path = username = guest account = nobody invalid users = valid users = admin users = read list = write list = volume = force user = force group = read only = Yes max connections = 0 min print space = 0 create mask = 0744 force create mode = 00 directory mask = 0755 force directory mode = 00 set directory = No status = Yes hide dot files = Yes delete veto files = No veto files = hide files = veto oplock files = guest only = No guest ok = No print ok = No postscript = No map system = No map hidden = No map archive = Yes locking = Yes strict locking = No share modes = Yes oplocks = Yes only user = No wide links = Yes follow symlinks = Yes sync always = No strict sync = No mangled names = Yes fake oplocks = No printing = bsd print command = lpr -r -P%p %s lpq command = lpq -P%p lprm command = lprm -P%p %j lppause command = lpresume command = queuepause command = queueresume command = printer = printer driver = NULL printer driver location = hosts allow = hosts deny = dont descend = magic script = magic output = mangled map = delete readonly = No dos filetimes = No dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = No read only = No create mask = 0755 [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = No path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes print ok = Yes [lphp] path = /var/spool/lpd/lphp read only = No guest ok = Yes print ok = Yes print command = lpr -r -h -P %p %s printer = lphp [lpep] path = /var/spool/lpd/lpep print ok = Yes print command = lpr -r -h -P %p %s printer = lpep [lppcl] path = /var/spool/samba read only = No create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes print ok = Yes share modes = No oplocks = No printer = lppcl [IPC$] comment = IPC Service (Samba Server) path = /tmp status = No guest ok = Yes