samba - Dec 2004 - Printing Problem for Win2000

Dear SMB-Gurus,

I have a problem using a network-printer on a samba server with from a
windows2000-computer. The printer is a raw-queue on cups. From any
other computers I can use the printer nearly without problems except the
printing queue in windows is not accessible (Permission denied...).

Whenever I try to send a e.g. word-document to te printer, word exits
emidiately without giving an error. The installed printing queue is gone
from the localy installed printers and no cocument reaches the printer.

My config:
[global]

	preferred master = Yes
	domain master = Yes
	admin users = root, @smbusers
	printer admin = root, administrator, @smbusers
	encrypt passwords = yes
	use client drivers = yes
	guest account = nobody
	username map = /etc/samba/users.map
...

[printers]
	comment = All Printers
	path = /var/spool/samba
	create mask = 0600
	guest ok = Yes
	printable = Yes
	browseable = yes


Does anybody can give me a hint f?r this?

TIA
	Stephan

A few things...

 >>use client drivers = yes

This will probably turn out to be part of it. Go all the way and set up the
print$ share, upload the drivers, etc.. Having this set to yes was one of a few
things which changed between consistantly
getting "access denied" and finally getting success... so I'm not
going back to see which of those few settings were not critical.

What Samba version are you on? Distro of Linux (or other OS) and version?

You might check out my presentation on a Samba 3 PDC to Win2K Client
presentation. The printing section ties together various findings and suggested
docs to read all into a bundle that should have you
printing soon.

ftp://ftp.lueckdatasystems.com/pub/presentations/klugsamba3pdc-bookreview.pdf

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems

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