You need a "map to guest" line, probably "bad user".
I can't see any other show stoppers in that config. *Michael Heydon - IT Administrator * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> k wayne wrote:
hi, this is my first post on this list, i hope i do everything right :) so, this is my situation: there's a small network (about ~30 PCs), most of which are running XP pro, some Vista (if the latter would complicate things a lot, we could forget about them) there's a server running ubuntu, to which a Brother HL5150D printer is attached; printing using cups works fine, and if i set samba to share-level security and make the printer available to the public, everything works well, too. however, i need to share some folders, with some sort of protection. one possibility would be to password-protect each of these (if that can be done using samba) or to use user-level security, which i would prefer; however, this complicates printing quite a lot (which may be because of a bad configuration, of course). i want to add the printer once to every client PC and then print from office or other applications without having to log into on the samba share - even if it is just some guest account - , so everyone just has to hit the "print" button, without prior authentication. i have tried to set something up like that; here's my simple configuration file: [global] workgroup = ast netbios name = smbserv server string = smbserv security = user encrypt passwords = yes printing = cups printcap name = cups passdb backend = tdbsam [printers] comment = Brother HL5150D path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = yes read only = yes printable = yes use client driver = yes however, i get an error when i try to print something, let's say from winword, which says that something went wrong and i should try to print a testpage. if i set security to share, printing works as expected, but then i don't know a way to restrict access to other shares. unfortunately, i do not have two servers or IPs, so i cannot run two instances of samba in the default port. is there a way to get what i want? oh, and a second question, which will be of importance only as soon as the first is solved :) is there a way to make a samba share perform as if it had a "sticky bit", so that users can upload files, but not alter, rename or delete them? thank you in advance :)
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