On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 15:24 -0500, Randy Easley wrote: > ___________________________________________ > > Because all of samba activities are mapped to a specific user - even > > those of 'public' or 'guest' are mapped to a posix (Linux in this > > instance) account. > > You can verify this by doing... > > testparm -sv |grep guest > > It should point out that even if it isn't configured in smb.conf, by > > default 'guest' is mapped to a 'nobody' account which by default isn't > > likely to have write access to your print spool directory for samba > > which is why access is going to be denied. > > I suppose you can either continue to not understand or try the > > suggestion that I offered or even better yet, read through the > > documentation in the link I provided - the official Samba How To - > which > > allows you to understand all of this for yourself. > > Craig > > Thanks for the reply Craig, I have guest = daisy so all logins will be > used as guest. > > Processing section homes > > Processing section printers > > Processing section export > > Loaded services file ok > > WARNING: passdb expand explicit =yes is depreciated > > Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE > > Map to guest = Never > > Guest account = daisy > > Guest only = No > > Guest ok = yes > > I was under the impression that a public user could print to a printer > if specified by smb.conf ? Is that not accurate? > > Smb.conf file [printers] > > Comment = All Printers > > Path = /var/spool/samba > > Browesable = no > > Guest ok = yes > > Public = yes > > Writeable = no > > Printable = yes ---- I've already answered that question twice now - a third time isn't going to change the answer. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
