Comment 5 for bug 990388

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Fred Müller (tim1900) wrote : Re: [Bug 990388] Re: acces denied samba printer shares after upgrade precise

Hello,

I have tested the smb conf. The problem (solution on precise) is the entry:
use client driver = yes.
If this is set everything works like oneirc.

(Mit dem Eintrag "use client driver = yes" funktioniert alles wieder.
Dieser Eintrag war bei Oneiric nicht nötig.)

Greetings

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Am 29.04.2012 18:30, schrieb Chris:
> Trying to set up Samba to share a printer with a Windows machine. It
> used to be fairly simple to do this.
>
> On another 12.04 test machine I tried starting gedit with sudo and
> printing a file. The following error message comes up in the printer
> status when selecting the printer to print on. It never says 'ready' or
> whatever it usually does.
>
> NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED opening remote spool config_txt
>
> On a Windows XP machine it will see the host machine and the printer
> attached to it, but it will not set up the printer complaining that it
> has lost the connection to the printer. I interpret this as "Microsoft
> Speak" for "I don't know what the problem is because printers on a
> Workgroup aren't supposed to deny access.
>
> Going back to the Unix client machine, if I print from a normal admin
> user I get prompted for authentication, but no amount of typing the
> correct password will get rid of the NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED message.
>
> I'm attaching smb.conf which is almost identical to the one that used to
> work with 10.04 LTS (but has been messed about with in deperation)
>
>
> Chris
>
> ** Attachment added: "smb.conf"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/990388/+attachment/3115733/+files/smb.conf
>