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...simple WORKGROUP based net to a Samba PDC. Everything was quite good, but after the process, The Win98 oses started to refuse sharing printers. Lets'see the problems: Using smbclient: smbclient \\\\PC-03\\HP -c "print /tmp/ex.txt" -U gestion Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvdevice (Invalid device - printer request made to non-printer connection or non-printer request made to printer connection.) using smbspool: smbspool smb://gestion:gestion@NBNAME/PC-03/HP prueba gestion prueba 1 1 /dev/null failed tcon_X with NT_STATUS_BAD_DEVICE_TYPE ERROR: Connection failed with err...

...irectory, list files, etc. However if I try to connect to the printer, I get this error message: # smbclient //greg/hp -U test added interface ip=10.0.0.3 bcast=10.0.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Got a positive name query response from 10.0.0.111 ( 10.0.0.111 ) Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvdevice (Invalid device - printer request made to non-printer connection or non-printer request made to printer connection.) Anyone know what I've done wrong? I know I do not have a "Domain Users" group on my PDC, but I read in the docs that all valid samba users are mapped to this group (B...

Good Afternoon, We recently added encrypted smb passwords to our site. I just tried to add a printer to samba and it will not work. I tried to connect to \\sambahost\printer and it will not connect. All the older printers still work. I just wonder if there is an extra step I need to perform now when I add printers? Thanks for your time, Bill -- William M. Fennell Network Administrator