Printing to Samba on Red Hat 8.0 from Windows

[PistolPete30]

Hi

Having searched previous threads on the subject, I found a few that helped with a problem I was having printing to a Samba print server on Red Hat 8 from Windows (2K) PCs.

I thought I had everything set up fine on the Red Hat box and could browse to the shared printer via windows PCs. I could also add the printer to the windows PCs without a problem. However, I then got the "Access Denied, Unable to connect" Message.

By simply adding the line:

printer = (Printer name)

to my smb.conf file I started to be able to print from the Windows PCs. Now, this is the reason for this thread (Yes, this isn't just a dull ramble I promise!) - Even though I can now add the printer to windows PCs and it works absolutely fine, the status in the Windows Printers box STILL says "Access denied, unable to connect".

Has anybody else come across this and if so any ideas how to get rid of it? I'm not that botheres because prining works OK but it just shouldn't be there!.

Cheers

Pete

 

[rsys]

Came across your post now..in fact, I was facing the same problem. The interesting thing for me is, this message is there only from windows 2000. My windows 98 machines have no such problems.

I added

writable=yes
browseable=yes

under [printers] and now the problem seems resolved!, though I can't be 100% sure if the above lines made all the difference.

just thought i'd let you know.

 

[smah]

I have some XP machines that show the same, but print fine. I haven't bothered to try to figure out why.