Samba Printing

Nefarious

Nefarious

Nefarious

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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?
 
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?
 
share means you set a password for each share you make. Any user who knows the password for the share can connect

security=user, means you setup samba users/passwords then assign users (& groups) to each share
 
best thing to do is backup ditch the default smb.conf and just write your own keeping bits of the orignal that you actually need. means when something does go wrong its not going to be junk but things you included yourself makes things very easy to trouble shoot
 
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?
 
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