Samba/CUPS print que security

[03giant]

I got samba up and running on my first try, printing and file sharing.

Now, when I print from a winxp laptop, I log on the network to access the printer. When I print some thing, it sends it of and says it it printing, but it hangs until I actually go to my FC3 box (the one the printer is attached to and Samba is running) and login the same as the same user I did on the network with the win box. As soon as I login the printer automatically goes crazy and prints everything out that I was trying to print.

What I would like is to not have to log into the FC3 box everytime I want to print from the win box. I think this is something simple I am missing.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[ghight]

I've never seen that before, but I'd say it has something to do with your configuration. Showing the [printers] section would be helpful, but a typical generic smb.conf should have a [printers] sections such as:

[printers]
        guest ok = yes
        browseable = no
        printable = yes
        public = yes
        path = /var/spool/public
        use client driver = yes

If you have given yourself special permissions, then your's would be different of course.

Are you able to browse files during the time you cannot print?

[03giant]

yes, I can browse files while I cannot print.
I will post the settings when I get home in a half hour or so.

[03giant]

ok this is what I have. I now do not think it is me logging into my user name on FC# box, just that it took that long to print it. Starnge. It took about 4 min to print from the wim box opposed to the 10 sec from the FC3 box.

[printers]
	comment = All Printers
	path = /var/spool/samba
	browseable = no
	public = yes
	use client driver = yes
	guest ok = yes