Good Evening: I have three machines in a small home network. One of the machines runs Red hat Linux 9 with Samba 2.2.7a. Attached to the Linux box is an HP LaserJet 5p printer. I've successfully configured the printer through the Cups utility, and can print from the Linux box. The other two machines in my home network run Windows XP Professional. I'm trying to configure both of the machines to use the Laser printer attached to the Linux box. If I go to My Network Places, I can see the Samba server, and subsequently drill down to see the printer. It appears that I can also add a new printer through the Add Printer wizard, and it gets added to each machine. In fact, when I select the printer for documents and such, they properly print. What's strange, though, is that if I open my Printers and Faxes window and look at the installed printers, under the status column, I get Ready for each of my local printers, but I get the text "Access denied, unable to connect" for the printer on the LaserJet box. Again, I have successfully printed several documents from the Windows XP boxes to the laser printer hooked up to the Linux box, but the status message has me concerned that something isn't configured properly. Is this a bug in Samba, or have I configured something wrong? If it helps, I've attached my smb.conf. Thanks. - Michael
Didn't receive a reply to my original post, so I'm posting again. -----Original Message----- From: Michael [mailto:mmcgillick@attbi.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 12:22 AM To: 'samba@lists.samba.org' Subject: Help with printing Good Evening: I have three machines in a small home network. One of the machines runs Red hat Linux 9 with Samba 2.2.7a. Attached to this Linux box is an HP LaserJet 5P printer. I've successfully configured the printer through the Cups utility, and can print from the Linux box. The other two machines in my home network run Windows XP Professional. I'm trying to configure both of the machines to use the Laser printer attached to the Linux box. If I go to My Network Places, I can see the Samba server and can drill down to see the printer. I can also add a new printer through the Add Printer wizard, and print documents on the printer from each of the Windows XP machines. What's strange, though, is that if I open my Printers and Faxes window and look at the installed printers, under the status column, I get "Ready" for each of my local printers, but I get the text "Access denied, unable to connect" for the printer on the LaserJet box. Again, I have successfully printed several documents from the Windows XP boxes to the laser printer hooked up to the Linux box, but the status message has me concerned that something isn't configured properly. Is this a bug in Samba, or have I configured something wrong? If it helps, I've attached my smb.conf. Thanks. - Michael
>Printers and Faxes >window and look at the installed printers, under the status >column, I get >"Ready" for each of my local printers, but I get the text >"Access denied, >unable to connect" for the printer on the LaserJet box. Again, I have >successfully printed several documents from the Windows XP boxes to the >laser printer hooked up to the Linux box, but the status message has me >concerned that something isn't configured properly. Is this a >bug in Samba, or have I configured something wrong?You can add the "use client driver = yes" parameter to your [printers] section, that will stop the message from appearing. I had the same problem with a pdf printer, although a quick google search turned up an answer (hint hint ;) http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22access+denied+unable+to +connect%22+samba+cups