Printing to Windows XP printer via Samba
David Kramer
david at thekramers.net
Sat Sep 10 11:40:03 EDT 2005
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> My wife got a new computer, and I configured her printer as sharable,
> but I am getting an NT_ACCESS_DENIED message.
> smbclient shows that the printer is available.
> I did disable the entire Norton firewall (Norton was included with the
> Pc).
> I think I have most of my ducks in order on the Linux side since I used
> to have this working when my wife was running Windows ME.
> Any suggestions.
I'm not that strong in Samba, but IIRC, Windows 2000 and later require
encrypted passwords for Windows shares. Make sure you have that turned on.
Windows ME allowed cleartext passwords, and even no password.
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