Lucas Correia Villa Real
2002-Jul-25 07:59 UTC
[Samba] smb server + local printer on Win2k workstation (shared)
Hi everyone, I have a question related to Samba + Win2k Workstations. Yesterday I had to change a Win2k server by a Samba server (v2.2.4) running on a Slackware 8.0. After a lot of work almost everything was working fine, apart from the printing services. Before this change, the Win2k server was used to both authenticate and give users privileges to access printers installed and shared on another Win2k Workstations. These questions were both handled by the Win2k Server (I guess). However, when I put the Samba server up the users could not print anymore on the shares in the Win2k workstations. As I could see in the documentation, there was nothing related to this kind of situation, thus there was nothing to configure in the smb server. My solution to fix this problem was to add the users that needed print access to the local access rights on every Win2k workstation which has a printer installed in. I did that for every user and for every workstation. Although that worked, I really think there?s another way of solving that problem, so I ask if someone knows how. Thanks for your attention, Lucas Correia Villa Real