I have a Deskjet 820Cse printer installed on my RedHat Linux 7.3 machine. It works great. I have the printer set up as a share on my network using Samba. Windows clients can connect to it and everything seems to print ok. However, when a user clicks on the printer icon from within windows, it says ACCESS DENIED. Unable to connect to the printer. However, they can print to it fine. The problem is, they cant manage their documents at all while they are printing cause they cant see the job due to the access problem. Weird hu?
Nope, not weird, been banging my head against a brick wall about that one for a year now. Occasionally I re-google and see what's what, but no single working solution has presented itself yet. I'm living with the problem at the moment, as, like you, we CAN print, just not manage jobs.
Add the following line to the printer's definition in smb.conf. @users is a local group on the print (Linux) server that contains the users that will use this printer. You could also just add the list of users to the smb.conf.
printer admin = @users
I'm using Red Hat 7.2 with all the errata applied. I found a post on groups.google.com saying that this is a bug in the samba package distributed by Red Hat.
For me it only happens with Windows XP boxes, and for some reason, some users with less 'access' to the Linux box don't have the problem. For example if I log onto the XP box as my wife's user, there is no 'access denied'. Log on as myself or root of all things, and I get 'access denied'.
They all print OK though. I don't get it. All the things I did find I tried to no avail. All those solution pretty much had a 'YMMV' clause to them, so I didn't really expect them to work anyway.
Basically, if you have more time than me and figure it out, please keep me in mind. It would be appreciated.
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