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gamewolf

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Registered: 2009-12-02

Posts: 60

Updating Samba and Cups, now can't share printer with Windows computer

I recently updated Samba and Cups, and now I cannot share my printer with any other computers.

I can print a test page within the CUPS web interface. When I connect from windows, it gives a "Access denied, unable to connect" error. I have looked through my Samba and CUPS configuration files and could not find anything wrong.

pastebin for configuration files: http://pastebin.com/YTnYE9j7

Here is the CUPS error log:

E [06/Jun/2010:21:26:22 -0500] Returning IPP client-error-not-authorized for Print-Job (ipp://localhost:631/printers/EPSON_WorkForce_500) from localhost
E [06/Jun/2010:21:26:30 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: pam_authenticate() returned 7 (Authentication failure)!
E [06/Jun/2010:21:26:30 -0500] Returning IPP client-error-not-authorized for Print-Job (ipp://localhost:631/printers/EPSON_WorkForce_500) from localhost
E [06/Jun/2010:21:26:53 -0500] [CGI] Unable to create avahi client: Resource temporarily unavailable
E [06/Jun/2010:21:26:53 -0500] [cups-deviced] PID 3779 (dnssd) stopped with status 1!
E [06/Jun/2010:21:45:22 -0500] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported

Thanks.

gamewolf

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Registered: 2009-12-02

Posts: 60

Re: Updating Samba and Cups, now can't share printer with Windows computer

I found out that I had to add the "use client driver" directive in the samba configuration file and set it to "yes". once I did that it worked fine.

The latest update to samba requires this directive for windows clients to connect.