Samba Printing

[Nefarious]

I've been asked to look at someone's printing that's f'd up.

It's a Canon USB attached to a debian server with cups shared through samba.

From what I can tell, the files seem to get stuck in the spool folder and leaves this files (obviously with a lot more in

#ipp://localhost/printers/CanonMP600Bjob-originating-user-namenobodyB

Any ideas where to start?

 

[Nefarious]

Right - gotten somewhere at last.

It was a permissions problem (isn't it always?) for users to access \\SERVER\print$

That's sorted but now there's a whole raft of problems. The thing seems to be a problem with samba permissions, in smb.conf it has the detail 'security = SHARE' I have never seen this before - any ideas?

 

[Nefarious]

I didn't write the original - I've written various ones of my own but had never seen the 'security=' option.

I've managed to get things to work, I think the reason why the printing didn't work is that he's set it to read only... AFAIK that would NEVER work as people have to be able to write to //server/print$ (where server is the computer hosting the printer).

Looks like I've got some reading up to do on samba and samba security - anyt suggestions of good sites/how-tos?