I hope that I'm sending this message to the correct email address. If not could you let me know the correct address to send Samba questions to. I am having a problem with Samba. I believe that we are using version 1.9.18; is there a command that I can use to find out for sure which version that I am using. The problem is that most of my users except for myself can not log on to the network to print. I believe the only reason that I can log on is because I have the system administrator password. I can ping the server and the printers. I have tried restarting Samba. I have used "testparm smb.conf" and "smbclient -L server name" command and receive no error messages. Do you have any other suggestions? I am in desperate need of help. People want to hang me because they can't print.
Amina Ray wrote:> > I hope that I'm sending this message to the correct email address. If > not could you let me know the correct address to send Samba questions > to. > I am having a problem with Samba. I believe that we are using version > 1.9.18; is there a command that I can use to find out for sure which > version that I am using. The problem is that most of my users except for > myself can not log on to the network to print. I believe the only reason > that I can log on is because I have the system administrator password. > I can ping the server and the printers. I have tried restarting Samba. I > have used "testparm smb.conf" and "smbclient -L server name" command > and receive no error messages. Do you have any other suggestions? I am > in desperate need of help. People want to hang me because they can't > print.You don't mention what OS you are running and it would be helpful to include your smb.conf file to see what settings you have. You can run smbd -V and it will let you know the version (either with an error message for older ones or with a version message for the newer ones). Where smbd lives depends on your OS and how samba was installed so you may have to look around. If you upgrade to version 2.0.7 of samba there is an html copy of the book Using Samba that you can check for setup information. -- =====================================================================Herb Lewis Silicon Graphics Networking Engineer 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy MS-510 Strategic Software Organization Mountain View, CA 94043-1351 herb@sgi.com Tel: 650-933-2177 http://www.sgi.com Fax: 650-932-2177 ======================================================================
In the file smb.conf look for the [printers] section and make sure that it includes the following lines =09browseable =3D no =09printable =3D yes =09guest ok =3D yes Then restart samba and see if that fixes your problem. You may also have to define a "guest" account in the general section of the smb.conf file but I believe there is a default of ftp( depends on version?) but that user has to be defined for your system. =20 Good luck Alex Vandenham Avantel Systems=20 On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, you wrote:> I hope that I'm sending this message to the correct email address. If > not could you let me know the correct address to send Samba questions > to. > I am having a problem with Samba. I believe that we are using version > 1.9.18; is there a command that I can use to find out for sure which > version that I am using. The problem is that most of my users except for > myself can not log on to the network to print. I believe the only reason > that I can log on is because I have the system administrator password. > I can ping the server and the printers. I have tried restarting Samba. I > have used "testparm smb.conf" and "smbclient -L server name" command > and receive no error messages. Do you have any other suggestions? I am > in desperate need of help. People want to hang me because they can't > print.