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ahz10 05-04-2005 04:45 PM

Samba printing permissions problem
 
Hello,

I am trying to use Samba and CUPS to share a printer, but I am getting a permissions error. In the samba log:

Code:

/var/log/samba/log.192.168.0.157:[2005/05/04 15:30:21, 0] printing/printing.c:print_job_start(2297)
/var/log/samba/log.192.168.0.157:  print_job_start: insufficient permissions to open spool file /var/spool/samba_printer/bree/smbprn.00000013.HwGH6l.

What is the correct permissions for this directory? I tried chmod a+rwx, and it works, but that is insecure. Instead, I tried
Code:

chmod bree foo; chmod g+rwx bree
but strangely that doesn't work.

I have searched Google for a while, but found no good answers.

netcrawl 05-05-2005 10:34 AM

root# chmod a+rw TX /var/spool/samba

From: http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...html#id2463782

Hope that helps,
netcrawl.


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