Neil Aggarwal
2001-Dec-06 22:19 UTC
Newbie trying to get samba to print from win2k to linux
Hello: I am *really* new to samba. I read as much of the documentation and the mailing list as I can, but I am having a problem trying to print from my windows 2000 box to my linux machine. Here is what I have on the Linux server: RedHat 7.2 Epson Stylus Color 860 (This is set-up as a local printer using the stp driver and it works just fine) I set-up samba by doing this: I placed the RedHat 7.2 disk 1 in the cdrom drive and issued the following commands: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS rpm -Uvh samba-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm samba-common-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm umount /mnt/cdrom eject cat /etc/passwd | /usr/bin/mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd chmod 600 /etc/samba/smbpasswd smbpasswd neil I entered my unix password for my account as the password. I wonder if that is the problem since I use "Neil Aggarwal" and a different password on my windows machine. Is there a way to tell my Windows box what login and password to use when trying to access the printer? After this, I put this line in /etc/samba/smb/conf: hosts allow 192.168.1. And then started the service by typing: service smb restart Then, I went to my windows machine. Eventually, it was able to see the MYGROUP domain and under that I see the Linux computer and the printer. When you first tried to access the printer, windows prompted me to set-up a driver for it, so I pointed windows to the Epson Stylus Color 860 driver I had installed when I had the printer local to my Windows machine. Now, when I go to Network Neighborhood, I see the printer but when I go to its properties, it says Access denied, unable to connect. I looked at the mailing list archives, but the only thing I could find to do was to put "use client driver = yes" in the smb.conf file. But, when I did that, I got an error message in the log file that it was an unknown configuration directive. Any ideas? Thanks, Neil. -- Neil Aggarwal JAMM Consulting, Inc. (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com Custom Internet Development Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases