[PLUG] Samba printer "access denied"

Evan Heidtmann clydefrog at adnap.no-ip.com
Wed Apr 14 22:10:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 20:41, Russell Senior wrote:
> Recently, my boss has reported that he can no longer (for how long,
> who knows) kill print jobs from Windows 2k.  I was previous running
> 2.2.7a, just upgraded to 3.0.2a, same thing.  He can print, but under
> Settings/Printers sees the big "Access denied, mumble-mumble" field
> after each printer.  When I am logged on, I do have access.  The
> printer section of my smb.conf looks like this:
> 
> [printers]
>         path = /tmp
>         printable = Yes
>         print command = /scripts/lpd/printThenDelete %p %s
>         lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P %p
>         lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -P %p %j
>         browseable = No
> 
> Does anyone know what is broken?  
> 

I don't have a windows box anywhere near to know exactly which field
you're talking about, but I have a hunch it's the "browseable"
directive. Try setting it to yes.

Evan





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