[lug] need samba help for printing

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 11-16 15:23, Calvin Dodge wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:56:07PM -0600, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> > am I using on the Linux box?  Can I configure Samba to not ask for
> > passwords at all?  I though setting the Global "Security" option to "SHARE"
> > would do that, but I still get asked for passwords.
> 
> I believe you need the following (working from memory plus the smb.conf file at work).
> 
> In the general section of smb.conf:
> 
> map to guest = Bad Password
> 
> In the [printers] section:
> 
> guest ok = Yes
> 
> 
> The first part says "if the user enters a bad password, don't ask him/her to re-enter it. Assume they are guests".
> 
> The printer part says "guests may use this share".
> 
> Reload smbd after making those changes, of course (on RH it's "/etc/init.d/smbd reload").
> 
> 
> If you _want_ password protected shares (though from your comments I gather that's not the case) ...
> 
> If you're running Win98 (or any version of Windows with encrypted passwords), you need to add users to the "smbpasswd" file (/etc/samba/smbpasswd on RH 7.1 & 7.2) with the "smbpasswd" command.
> 
> That _shouldn't_ be an issue if you're running only Win95, though.

I thought you can just enable encryption on the Samba side if encrypted passwords
are used?

The other option is to turn off encryption in Win98 or NT 4/5. The SMB Howto has
the registry settings for Windows that do this:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-7.html

Have fun,
 
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Sean LeBlanc, seanleblanc at home.com