Phil Meyer wrote: > Phil Meyer wrote: >> Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >>> I have even configured my Linux userid/password but the error message I >>> get back from Windows is permission denied. >>> >>> Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? >>> >> >> Saw this one just the other day. Samba did not automatically create >> the spool directory. Then when I created it manually it still >> wouldn't write to it, so I made it 777 and it started to work. Weird. 1777 would probably be better.... >> First off, the default spool directory is: /usr/spool/samba >> That is wrong, of course, but there it is. >> Second, no indication who should own it. >> >> I found the error in /var/log/messages: >> >> Mar 30 08:33:08 eragon smbd[27923]: '/usr/spool/samba' does not >> exist or permission denied when connecting to [lp] Error was No such >> file or directory >> >> Good Luck! >> > Forgot to add: > > # ln -s /var/spool /usr/spool > > will correct the problem. But the package maintainer probably needs to > correct it in the next update. I'm not currently trying it as a SAMBA printer, but I've long since fixed the /usr/spool /var/spool problem, and my /var/spool/samba is 1777 and owned by root.root. So anyone can write to it. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
