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[ILUG] Samba printing problem

[ILUG] Samba printing problem

Dave Airlie David.Airlie at ul.ie
Tue Sep 5 14:55:10 IST 2000


switch on encrypted passwords I think is the way .. not sure ...

Dave.

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Leo Talbot wrote:

> I have a Debian box hosting a printer, and a Win 98 box wanting to print to
> said printer. When I don't log on to the local NT domain, printing works fine
> (presumably cos it uses the username 'nobody'). When I am logged on, the 
> printer refuses to print until I open a share on the same machine. Username 
> and password are the same on the NT domain and the Debian box.
> 
> Is there some way of specifying that Win 98 uses the 'nobody' username all 
> the time when printing? I've tried using '\\nobody at machine' and 
> '\\machine.nobody'. Any ideas?
> 
> Leo
> 

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David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
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