samba - Sep 2011 - samba print server - unable to change "advanced" settings from a client machine 3.5.6

Hello,
I'm having trouble replacing our old print server (debian sarge) with a new
one.
When I enable print$ and force user root and give access to nobody, the
print$ share is working properly. I can create delete, add files etc from a
windows xp machine.  What I need now is being able to "go to printers and
faxes, right click on the printer, go to advanced, and click new driver"
(this would upload the driver to the server. Unfortunately this does not
work as "advanced" or any other settings are grayed out for me. The
config
files have same settings so I'm not sure what is the problem here. It works
on my old server but it does not work on a new server. Samba version: 3.5.6
:

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = no
   path = /var/spool/samba
   guest ok = yes
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700

# Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable
# printer drivers
[print$]
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
   read only = no
   guest ok = yes
   write ok = yes
   write list = nobody, root
   force user = root


Could somebody point me into proper direction here? Am I missing a
permission? setting? how do I give access to everybody or "nobody"
guest
account to make changes??

Thanks,
Lucas

On 09/28/2011 12:03 PM, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm having trouble replacing our old print server (debian sarge) with a
new
> one.
> When I enable print$ and force user root and give access to nobody, the
> print$ share is working properly. I can create delete, add files etc from a
> windows xp machine.  What I need now is being able to "go to printers
and
> faxes, right click on the printer, go to advanced, and click new
driver"
> (this would upload the driver to the server. Unfortunately this does not
> work as "advanced" or any other settings are grayed out for me.
The config
> files have same settings so I'm not sure what is the problem here. It
works
> on my old server but it does not work on a new server. Samba version: 3.5.6
> :
>
> [printers]
>     comment = All Printers
>     browseable = no
>     path = /var/spool/samba
>     guest ok = yes
>     read only = yes
>     create mask = 0700
>
> # Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable
> # printer drivers
> [print$]
>     comment = Printer Drivers
>     path = /var/lib/samba/printers
>     browseable = yes
>     read only = no
>     guest ok = yes
>     write ok = yes
>     write list = nobody, root
>     force user = root
>
>
> Could somebody point me into proper direction here? Am I missing a
> permission? setting? how do I give access to everybody or
"nobody" guest
> account to make changes??
>
> Thanks,
> Lucas
>
>
>
Okay, for the newer Samba releases, I think they have made it so you 
need to use the net command or something similar.

In order to get these rights for myself on my setup, I had to run this:

/usr/local/bin/net sam rights grant jax SePrintOperatorPrivilege

Perhaps some variant of this will work for you

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski at
gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm having trouble replacing our old print server (debian sarge) with a
new
> one.
> When I enable print$ and force user root and give access to nobody, the
> print$ share is working properly. I can create delete, add files etc from a
> windows xp machine.  What I need now is being able to "go to printers
and
> faxes, right click on the printer, go to advanced, and click new
driver"
> (this would upload the driver to the server. Unfortunately this does not
> work as "advanced" or any other settings are grayed out for me.
The config
> files have same settings so I'm not sure what is the problem here. It
works
> on my old server but it does not work on a new server. Samba version: 3.5.6
> :
>
> [printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    browseable = no
>    path = /var/spool/samba
>    guest ok = yes
>    read only = yes
>    create mask = 0700
>
> # Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable
> # printer drivers
> [print$]
>    comment = Printer Drivers
>    path = /var/lib/samba/printers
>    browseable = yes
>    read only = no
>    guest ok = yes
>    write ok = yes
>    write list = nobody, root
>    force user = root
>
>
> Could somebody point me into proper direction here? Am I missing a
> permission? setting? how do I give access to everybody or
"nobody" guest
> account to make changes??
>
> Thanks,
> Lucas
>
> Okay, for the newer Samba releases, I think they have made it so you
> need to use the net command or something similar.
>
> In order to get these rights for myself on my setup, I had to run this:
>
> /usr/local/bin/net sam rights grant jax SePrintOperatorPrivilege
>
> Perhaps some variant of this will work for you
>
>
Thanks Jack,
Here is what needed to be done:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2007-March/129995.html

smbpasswd -a root



net rpc rights list accounts (enter root password)
net rpc rights grant Everyone SePrintOperatorPrivilege

Restart samba
/etc/init.d/samba restart

And we are good to go.

Thank you.
Lucas