samba - May 1999 - permissions for printing

I have just installed Samba for the following configuration:

AIX 4.2, with NT clients

We are trying to print from clients to unix printers through a Progress
(database) program.  On unix, I would identify my destination as "lp -s
-dprinter1".  Now, I indicate "//rs6000/printer1".   People in
our systems
department (and therefore, people with "root" privileges) can print
without any
problem.  However, regular users cannot.  They get a message that basically says
they don't have access to the following file
   //rs6000/printer1      (where printer1 is the name of the unix printer).

I am assuming this is either a configuration or permissions problem on the unix
box, but I don't know which, and I don't know what to do (or where to
go) to
resolve it.

Any ideas?

Thanks!!
Pattee Bender
Uniform Color Company

Pattee M Bender wrote:
> 
> I have just installed Samba for the following configuration:
> 
> AIX 4.2, with NT clients
> 
> We are trying to print from clients to unix printers through a Progress
> (database) program.  On unix, I would identify my destination as "lp
-s
> -dprinter1".  Now, I indicate "//rs6000/printer1".   People
in our systems
> department (and therefore, people with "root" privileges) can
print without any
> problem.  However, regular users cannot.  They get a message that basically
says
> they don't have access to the following file
>    //rs6000/printer1      (where printer1 is the name of the unix printer).
> 
> I am assuming this is either a configuration or permissions problem on the
unix
> box, but I don't know which, and I don't know what to do (or where
to go) to
> resolve it.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!!
> Pattee Bender
> Uniform Color Company
I had some problems of this kind some time ago, and they were happening
because the samba spool directory (where it stores print jobs) didn't
have the right permissions. The recommended is 1777 (sticky bit set,
world writable).

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