[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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