Gagneet Singh
2002-Aug-20 23:29 UTC
[Samba] Access WinNT Shared Printer for users of Samba but not on WinNT machine
Hi! We have just installed a Linux machine in our organization. (Current File & Print server is WinNT). The WinNT machine has a local printer (HP 1200 series) attached to it. For the new entries we have given them authentication access from the Samba server. My SMB.CONF file is given below. They logon to the ACTLINUX workgroup for authentication. Two conditions occur here. a) They can type any password and the SAMBA machine authenticates them. ?? b) When they try to print to the WinNT shared printer, (configured on the Samba machine with a username and password available on the WinNT machine.) they get a popup box asking for their assword to access the printer share. ?? We have a small network with no subnets and the two workgroups are ACT and ACTLINUX (the second containg the Samba server only, as of now). ACT is on WinNT (HP eSeries machine) and ACTLINUX is on Red Hat 7.2 distribution installed machine. Both are on the same subnet of (192.168.14.x) with WinNT having IP 192.168.14.1 and Linux 192.168.14.125. Please help specially on the Password Issue is it a problem because I am using Security level as SHARE and if that is not to be used how do i give access to users for the individual shares created. Thanx Gagneet My smb.conf file is given below. # Global parameters [global] workgroup = ACTLINUX netbios name = BACKUP server string = Samba Server [Version: %v] security = SHARE encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 0 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 domain logons = Yes dns proxy = No admin users = gagneet hosts allow = 192.168.14. printing = lprng [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home//%U valid users = %S admin users read only = No create mask = 0764 directory mask = 0775 hosts allow browseable = No hide dot files = Yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No [public] comment = Shared folder for all Users path = /public guest account = nobody public = Yes valid users = nobody writable = Yes read only = No guest ok = Yes