Comment 4 for bug 990388

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