I'm trying to find my way thru the maze of supporting software to get something that appears to be "cookbook" by some standards to work:
Anonymously Produce PDF documents via a PDF Pseudo Printer in Samba.
I'm running RHL 8 (Psyche).
I built Samba 3.0.0. It works--much disconcerting to my MCSEs; add the random server messages placed and appearing in the Windoze Server Manager ;)
What I'm after is an anonymous PDF printer that *anyone* on the Windoze domain can use to print PDF documents. I don't want to have to add 10s or 100s of users to the Linux box just so they can use the printer.
Simple enough, right? Well, something is haywire. The pseudo printer is available to a Windoze client via Add Printer... Printing seems to work at first, but the resulting output is *always* 321 bytes and cannot be opened by Adobe Acrobat. :(
Additionally, there seems to be a rather unfriendly message about "Access Denied, unable to connect" message on the Windoze client, yet status is "Ready".
I have a feeling that PAM might be getting in the way. I have really loosened my Samba.conf per the Samba Project Documentation, Chapter 8 on Anonymous Printing. I tweaked CUPS for raw feeds per the docs, but I never really got printing working on my Linux box effectively in the first place, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not asking Samba to use CUPS.
My original sources for setting this up came from the following:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html
A great article, if slightly dated, but with some intelligent guessing, configurable for RHL 8 and Samba 3.0. *But* I might have missed something.
And more recently, and the current implementation being tested:
http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-01/guru_01.html
This one is very simple, but the output is still only 321 bytes.
Does anyone have suggestions to try and resolve this? PAM has a Samba config that is default for RHL 8. I did edit the /etc/rc.d/init.d script to use my Samba 3.0 build so I'm fairly sure that I'm not using the default Samba 2.x install found in RHL.
Many, many thanks in advance for suggestions on resolving this problem. I will actively monitor this thread and answer any questions anyone may have on my configuration that may further help get this working.
Warmest Regards, Tim
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