On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 14:10, Lorn Miller wrote: > Hi all, > My problem is this: I am trying to share a printer with a windows xp > box using samba. The xp machine is only able to see my printer (or my > samba share) if I drop my firewall. Since I am running an http server, > I don't want to drop my firewall. > Even with the firewall down, however, all the xp box can do is see > the printer. Windows XP is unable to access the printer, the error is > "Access Denied, unable to connect." > I have a share set up as read only, and that appears to work. I have > a share set up as read/write, but when I try to write from the xp box, I > get another access denied. > > Summary: > can't see samba shares without dropping firewall > can't write to samba shares > can't print to samba shared printer To see samba shares with the firewall up you will need to open the following ports: 137 udp 138 udp 139 tcp 445 tcp You can do this by adding entries in /etc/sysconfig/iptables or using system-config-securitylevel and adding these ports to the area at the bottom of the GUI. On the second problem, if you have not already make sure you use smbpasswd -a username to add a user to the samba system that has permissions for the shares. This may also be the issue with the printer. On another note you may want to look at using something other than samba to share the printer on your linux system. I believe windows will let you use lpr or lpd to access networked printers. I believe there was a thread on the list here a few weeks ago regarding how to set this up. Hope that helps. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Underlying Principle of Socio-Genetics: Superiority is recessive.
