I had this problem yesterday and found that they need some access rights to the /tmp directory. I changed this and all seems well for the time being.
-Andreas p.s. Anyone know of any security issues with allowing users access rights to the /tmp directory? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Willem Brown Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Access Denied connecting to samba printer (was: Samba Printer Share) Edward Dekkers wrote: >>I have a Deskjet 820Cse printer installed on my RedHat Linux 7.3 machine. >>It works great. I have the printer set up as a share on my network using >>Samba. Windows clients can connect to it and everything seems to print ok. >>However, when a user clicks on the printer icon from within windows, it >>says ACCESS DENIED. Unable to connect to the printer. However, they can >>print to it fine. The problem is, they cant manage their documents at all >>while they are printing cause they cant see the job due to the access >>problem. Weird hu? > > > Nope, not weird, been banging my head against a brick wall about that one > for a year now. Occasionally I re-google and see what's what, but no single > working solution has presented itself yet. I'm living with the problem at > the moment, as, like you, we CAN print, just not manage jobs. > Add the following line to the printer's definition in smb.conf. @users is a local group on the print (Linux) server that contains the users that will use this printer. You could also just add the list of users to the smb.conf. printer admin = @users I'm using Red Hat 7.2 with all the errata applied. I found a post on groups.google.com saying that this is a bug in the samba package distributed by Red Hat. > For me it only happens with Windows XP boxes, and for some reason, some > users with less 'access' to the Linux box don't have the problem. For > example if I log onto the XP box as my wife's user, there is no 'access > denied'. Log on as myself or root of all things, and I get 'access denied'. > > They all print OK though. I don't get it. All the things I did find I tried > to no avail. All those solution pretty much had a 'YMMV' clause to them, so > I didn't really expect them to work anyway. > > Basically, if you have more time than me and figure it out, please keep me > in mind. It would be appreciated. > > Regards, > > --- > Edward Dekkers (Director) > Triple D Computer Services P/L > > > > I hope this helps. Best Regards Willem Brown -- iServe (Pty) Ltd. http://www.iserve.co.za/ Tel: +27 (0)11 258-7800 Fax: +27 (0)11 258-7888 Cell: +27 (0)83 271-0839 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
