Jean, I am guessing from the information that you have provided that there may be a Samba spool directory permissions problem.
What are the permissions on /var/spool/samba? They should be set to: drwxrwxrwt which is achieved by: chmod 02777 /var/spool/samba - John T. On Thursday 13 January 2005 02:32, Jean Lee wrote: > Hello, > > I am using samba to acces a printer on my Linux server from Windows XP > Home SP2 clients. > It was working very well until yesterday evening. Since yesterday, I can > print from the server (with cups) but I can't print from the Windows > clients. > And all the shared folders are still OK. There is only printing from > Windows clients which doesn't work. > We changed nothing on the server neither on the client side. > > When I try to print a test page from Windows, I get the following error: > Unable to create a print task > > I tried the following things : > > Uninstall then reinstall printer from the windows client > Uninstall then reinstall printer from the server > reboot the server > > I always have the problem > > Here is a part of my /etc/smb.conf > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > valid users = user gp pm cm > path = /var/spool/samba > browseable = no > # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print > public = no > writable = no > printable = yes > > I don't know where to search. I tried Ethereal but it is to complex for me. > > Does anybody experienced this problem ? If no, where and what can I > start to search ? > > THank you for any help, > > Jean Lee -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba