Hello all,
I have been trying set up a linux box as a print server for our mixed
windows network. It has samba working - everybody can see it & a shared
directory. I installed cups & that too seems to be fine - printing test
pages from the web interface works perfectly. But i can't get them to talk.
I think this is mostly as i can't find a decent howto & so am poking
around
a bit with no real understanding!
The printers show up in the network neighbourhood, but say "Access Denied,
unable to connect" next to them
When i try to print a test page from a windows box, I keep getting:
print_job_start: insufficient permissions to open spool file
/var/spool/cups/smbprn.000018.orbvm1.
so i chmod a+rw the cups directory & it still says the same. so i tried
setting up the spool to /var/tmp which is already xrwxrwxrw & although
windows this time thought that it had sent the job off, nothing appeared in
the directory.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this is all due to logins & passwords....
can anybody help me? or at least tell me where to RTFM? the man pages
rather skimp on samba / cups intergration.
Cheers,
Robin Marlow
p.s. here are the relevant bits of my smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = Da Flat
server string = The Brio
hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.
locking = no
log level = 0
syslog = 0
debuglevel = 0
debug timestamp = no
syslogonly = no
security = share
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = /etc/printcap
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/cups
create mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
print ok = Yes
read only = No
writeable = yes
browseable = Yes
[LaserJ2]
Comment = Brio HPLJ III
path = /var/tmp
read only = No
writeable = yes
create mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
print ok = Yes
public = Yes