We are running the samba server on RH9 and use win98
and 2000 clients. We ran into two problems up to now,
both related to printing. We have two win98 machines
with printers (in two parts of the building). We want
to have all the print jobs from other machines to go
through the server before they are printed on these
machines.
First, we cannot not force the Win2000 machine to send
anyting but the null password to the printer share
(although to the other shares, it does work). So we
switched to guest ok = yes setting (although we would
like to have password protection).
Second, once the job is submitted, we cannot cancel
the print job from the client machine. Trying to
cancel results in a message: you do not have
permission to modify the print job. Everything does
print correctly and does show the correct username
(and shows the printing icon in the toobar). If we
print directly to them, we can cancel the print job.
We've not found the work around for this second
problem.
We do not want users to log in to access their share
so we use share security model. We connect to shares
using net use command. For printing just use the
standard printer interface (without net use command),
otherwise the icon on toolbar doesn't show since the
client cannot recognize it's own print job otherwise.
We use cups print system and use the raw printer
driver for the linux system (just to pass through,
although having real drivers still gives the same
problem).
Any thoughts on how to go about solving the second
problem (and improving settings for first)? Googling
and going through archives didn't show anything
useful.
Thank you ahead of time for your help.
Here is is my testparms output of smb.conf file
# Global parameters
[global]
coding system =
client code page = 850
code page directory /usr/share/samba/codepages
workgroup = testgroup
netbios name =
netbios aliases =
netbios scope =
server string = i'm your server for tonight
interfaces =
bind interfaces only = No
security = SHARE
encrypt passwords = Yes
update encrypted = No
allow trusted domains = Yes
hosts equiv =
min passwd length = 5
map to guest = Never
null passwords = No
obey pam restrictions = Yes
password server =
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
root directory =
pam password change = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n
*Retype*new*password* %n\n
*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
passwd chat debug = No
username map =
password level = 0
username level = 0
unix password sync = Yes
restrict anonymous = No
lanman auth = Yes
use rhosts = No
admin log = No
log level = 0
syslog = 1
syslog only = No
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 0
timestamp logs = Yes
debug hires timestamp = No
debug pid = No
debug uid = No
protocol = NT1
large readwrite = Yes
max protocol = NT1
min protocol = CORE
read bmpx = No
read raw = Yes
write raw = Yes
nt smb support = Yes
nt pipe support = Yes
nt status support = Yes
announce version = 4.9
announce as = NT
max mux = 50
max xmit = 16644
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
max ttl = 259200
max wins ttl = 518400
min wins ttl = 21600
time server = No
unix extensions = No
change notify timeout = 60
deadtime = 0
getwd cache = Yes
keepalive = 300
lpq cache time = 10
max smbd processes = 0
max disk size = 0
max open files = 10000
name cache timeout = 660
read size = 16384
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192
SO_SNDBUF=8192
stat cache size = 50
use mmap = Yes
total print jobs = 0
load printers = Yes
printcap name = /etc/printcap
disable spoolss = Yes
enumports command =
addprinter command =
deleteprinter command =
show add printer wizard = Yes
os2 driver map =
strip dot = No
mangling method = hash
character set =
mangled stack = 50
stat cache = Yes
domain admin group =
domain guest group =
machine password timeout = 604800
add user script =
delete user script =
logon script =
logon path = \\%N\%U\profile
logon drive =
logon home = \\%N\%U
domain logons = No
os level = 20
lm announce = Auto
lm interval = 60
preferred master = Auto
local master = Yes
domain master = Auto
browse list = Yes
enhanced browsing = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins proxy = No
wins server =
wins support = No
wins hook =
kernel oplocks = Yes
lock spin count = 3
lock spin time = 10
oplock break wait time = 0
add share command =
change share command =
delete share command =
config file =
preload =
lock dir = /var/cache/samba
pid directory = /var/run/samba
utmp directory =
wtmp directory =
utmp = No
default service =
message command =
dfree command =
valid chars =
remote announce =
remote browse sync =
socket address = 0.0.0.0
homedir map = auto.home
time offset = 0
NIS homedir = No
source environment =
panic action =
hide local users = No
host msdfs = No
winbind uid =
winbind gid =
template homedir = /home/%D/%U
template shell = /bin/false
winbind separator = \
winbind cache time = 15
winbind enum users = Yes
winbind enum groups = Yes
winbind use default domain = No
comment =
path =
alternate permissions = No
username = testuser
guest account = nobody
invalid users =
valid users =
admin users =
read list =
write list =
printer admin =
force user =
force group =
read only = Yes
create mask = 0744
force create mode = 00
security mask = 0777
force security mode = 00
directory mask = 0755
force directory mode = 00
directory security mask = 0777
force directory security mode = 00
force unknown acl user = 00
inherit permissions = No
inherit acls = No
guest only = No
guest ok = No
only user = No
hosts allow =
hosts deny =
status = Yes
nt acl support = Yes
profile acls = No
block size = 1024
max connections = 0
min print space = 0
strict allocate = No
strict sync = No
sync always = No
write cache size = 0
max print jobs = 1000
printable = No
postscript = No
printing = cups
print command = lpr -r -P%p %s
lpq command = lpq -P%p
lprm command = lprm -P%p %j
lppause command =
lpresume command =
queuepause command =
queueresume command =
printer name =
use client driver = No
default devmode = No
printer driver =
printer driver file = /etc/samba/printers.def
printer driver location =
default case = lower
case sensitive = No
preserve case = Yes
short preserve case = Yes
mangle case = No
mangling char = ~
hide dot files = Yes
hide unreadable = No
delete veto files = No
veto files =
hide files =
veto oplock files =
map system = No
map hidden = No
map archive = Yes
mangled names = Yes
mangled map =
browseable = Yes
blocking locks = Yes
csc policy = manual
fake oplocks = No
locking = Yes
oplocks = Yes
level2 oplocks = Yes
oplock contention limit = 2
posix locking = Yes
strict locking = No
share modes = Yes
copy =
include =
exec =
preexec close = No
postexec =
root preexec =
root preexec close = No
root postexec =
available = Yes
volume =
fstype = NTFS
set directory = No
wide links = Yes
follow symlinks = Yes
dont descend =
magic script =
magic output =
delete readonly = No
dos filemode = No
dos filetimes = No
dos filetime resolution = No
fake directory create times = No
vfs object =
vfs options =
msdfs root = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
guest account = %U
create mask = 0777
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
browseable = No
[home_dir]
comment = home directory
path = %H/smbfiles
read only = No
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
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