No, it is not. One of the topics I planned on researching soon is mapping a windows logon to a linux logon for Samba. It sounds like now might be the time to learn about it. Do tell more.
Russ -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:18 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Printer help >>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2007 at 10:47 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , "Jones, Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added "public = yes" to the printer section of smb.conf, but it didn't > seem to have any effect. > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > path = /var/spool/samba > browseable = no > # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print > guest ok = yes > writable = no > printable = yes > public = yes > > > It this the correct way to make my printer public? Most likely you're running into an interaction between "guest account =" and "map to guest =". Is your Windows account name the same as your Linux account name? Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
