Hi, At work we have some servers running Samba. There aren't any printers attached to them. I removed the [printers] share and set "load printers=no" in the configuration file, but when I open the "browse for printers" dialog on a Windows 2000 box the Samba servers always appear in the list of available printer servers. This is not a serious problem, but might confuse some of our users. Is there any possibility to hide Samba from the "browse for printers" list? At work we use Samba 2.0.10 and I get the same behavior with Samba 2.2.2 on my Laptop. thank you for any help, patrice -- Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:47:53PM +0100, Patrice Neff wrote:> At work we have some servers running Samba. There aren't any printers > attached to them. I removed the [printers] share and set "load > printers=no" in the configuration file, but when I open the "browse > for printers" dialog on a Windows 2000 box the Samba servers always > appear in the list of available printer servers.I can't give you a solution to removing them from the print server list, but on NT4 the network print server box shows EVERY Samba/NT machine on the subnet, regardless of whether or not they have printers or anything else to share. It may be confusing (in truth, the whole Add Printer Wizard in NT4 is overly confusing to new users), but it seems to be The Way It Works in NT. Since NT4 and Windows 2000 are (for obvious reasons) quite similar, I'm guessing that it's the same way - it just lists every potential print server it knows about. -- Michael Heironimus
On 17 Nov 2001, Patrice Neff wrote:> At work we have some servers running Samba. There aren't any printers > attached to them. I removed the [printers] share and set "load > printers=no" in the configuration file, but when I open the "browse > for printers" dialog on a Windows 2000 box the Samba servers always > appear in the list of available printer servers. > > This is not a serious problem, but might confuse some of our users. Is > there any possibility to hide Samba from the "browse for printers" > list? > > At work we use Samba 2.0.10 and I get the same behavior with Samba > 2.2.2 on my Laptop.Try setting "disable spoolss = yes" under 2.2.2 and see if that corrects it. This will disable Samba's ability to support the set of printing MSRPC's for NT/2000 clients. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- www.samba.org SAMBA Team jerry_at_samba.org www.plainjoe.org jerry_at_plainjoe.org http://www.hp.com Hewlett-Packard --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--