[KLUG Members] printing with windows and samba

[Jason Edward Durrett]

Michael Lueck wrote:
> Jason Edward Durrett wrote:
>
>> My samba is not set up as a PDC - just a workgroup.  Do you have any
>> ideas on how I can work around that error in a workgroup? 
>
> At least try the smb.conf print related settings per my examples.
>
> I have no idea how print drivers act in the non-PDC mode.
>
> Mr. Terpstra's book had very useful info related to Samba / CUPS
> configurations. The same information I believe is online... but I much
> prefer hard copy.
>
Your examples worked except I was still getting that error every once in
a while (1 in 10 times about).  Then I noticed that for the windows
machine was seemingly randomly connecting as the guest account instead
of as the logged in user.  I changed smb.conf to:

guest ok = no

and that made it a bit better but still failing at about 1 in 20.

On the windows side, I changed the properties of the printer to "Print
directly to Printer" from "Print to Spool" - Now after 200 or so print
jobs no error!

Thanks again for your help.