samba - Jan 2003 - printer driver access denied

Hi,

I have print$ setup and points to /var/lib/samba/printers. I have
printer_admin and write_list access. /var/lib/samba/printers is setup with
755 for root:root. When I tried to add/upload new drivers to print$ in W2K I
get access denied. Would someone please give me a few pointers please?

Regards,
Norman

Hi Glen,

Yes. Would you please send your smb.conf?

I think I have tracked to the cause of the problem. I have set my printer to
raw device as it is a HP LaserJet 5P (no postscript). I have installed the
cups and adobe printer drivers, but can't get them to go into
/var/lib/samba/printers using cupsaddsmb. Access denied all the time. The
add button is grayed out. Also cupsaddsmb keeps complaining that it can't
find the ppd for HP5P. Could raw device be the cause of this?

Regards,
Norman
> Hi Norman,
>
> I have this working for the driver download part, no printout so far, if
you
> like I cna send you a copy of my smb.conf which may help
>
> Glenn
>
> Norman Zhang wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have print$ setup and points to /var/lib/samba/printers. I have
> > printer_admin and write_list access. /var/lib/samba/printers is setup
with
> > 755 for root:root. When I tried to add/upload new drivers to print$ in
W2K I
> > get access denied. Would someone please give me a few pointers please?

Hi Glenn and All,

Thanks for your reply and advices.

: This may be an obvious question, but have you installed the printer using
the
: CUPS admin page http://localhost:631, that apparently generates the PPD
for the
: printer. Where are you seeing the raw device setting??

I setup raw device as my printer was a HP5P (no postscript). All printer
drivers came with CUPS only support postscript. Do you how I can get my HP5P
working without the raw device? With raw device I get perfect print on the
CUPS server (Linux Box). My print command is

print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s

But Windows clients, I get one page with couple lines PJL commands, then the
print out and many pages of garbage. I guess there's incompatibility between
drivers. But I don't how to solve them. My printer drivers are the latest
from HP. I tried both PCL and PS.

: I changed the permissions of both the ....../samba/printers directory and
also
: the /var/spool/samba directory to 777, though my smb.conf may be different
;-)

I now can upload drivers to /var/lib/samba/printers after assigning print
admins as the group users with rwx to /var/lib/samba/printers. I also
changed a mismatched winbind separator in my config (I had print admin
@"MyDomain\Print Admin" but the separator was +). Would you please
give me
some advice on how to solve my above problem.

Thanks and Regards,
Norman