samba - Feb 2000 - Couple quick questions (maybe ;)

I have a couple questions:

	1) how can i allow users who are previously authenticated against
	an NT server to print to a shared printer without being prompt for
	a password? If i remove the "guest ok" or "public" (set
them to
	"no"), then the users get prompted for a password. They have
	not authenticated against the samba server, just the NT domain
	controller. is this possible?

	2) is it possible to get a list of available workstations on
	a subnet using the broadcast address? or do i need to specify
	a WINS-server/workstation to be able to see everyone else?
	currently, using a small script i wrote, i can find most people
	by calling "nmblookup -B 123.123.255.255 workstation" to get
	the IP, and then call "smbclient -I -L ip_address workstation" to
	get a listing of shares for that workstation, and it lists some
	other workstations as well. just curious if there is a command
	that uses the broadcast to query all computers in that subnet
	and can return a list of those computers.

Just a couple questions, and hoping each is possible :)

Thanx much!

====---- - - - -  -   -   -    -     -
Scott Fritzinger		
Digital Photography for Linux!
	gPhoto Project
	www.gphoto.org

"Scott." wrote:
> 
> I have a couple questions:
> 
>         1) how can i allow users who are previously authenticated against
>         an NT server to print to a shared printer without being prompt for
>         a password? If i remove the "guest ok" or
"public" (set them to
>         "no"), then the users get prompted for a password. They
have
>         not authenticated against the samba server, just the NT domain
>         controller. is this possible?
Make the Samba server a member of the NT domain, and set
security=domain. Read the docs before doing this :-)
>         2) is it possible to get a list of available workstations on
>         a subnet using the broadcast address? or do i need to specify
>         a WINS-server/workstation to be able to see everyone else?
>         currently, using a small script i wrote, i can find most people
>         by calling "nmblookup -B 123.123.255.255 workstation" to
get
>         the IP, and then call "smbclient -I -L ip_address
workstation" to
>         get a listing of shares for that workstation, and it lists some
>         other workstations as well. just curious if there is a command
>         that uses the broadcast to query all computers in that subnet
>         and can return a list of those computers.
smbclient -L \* is what you would use, but Microsoft's broken IP stack
doesn't respond to messages to the broadcast address. Try "ping
255.255.255.255" sometime, and all your windows boxes will remain
silent.... You can certainly request the browse list though.

HTH

Mike.