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Title: guest printing
Post by: guy9000 on July 18, 2002, 04:43:14 AM

Hello everyone,

I've setup a machine with 5.5 and using it as a print server only. How can I let everyone one the LAN print to the printer that is connected to it. NB: I don't want to setup accounts for everyone on this print server. Guest printing is fine.

thank for any help,
guy9000

Title: Re: guest printing
Post by: Ray Mitchell on July 19, 2002, 06:29:58 PM

Dear guy9000

As fas a I know users will need to log on with a valid user/password combination to gain access to the printers on the sme server ie the printers are network resources. You could set up a guest account & password that everyone uses and that way they will get printer access.
We have a similar situation to yours with guest users who are only temporarily using the network, so they just use the same guest user account/password.

Ray

Title: Re: guest printing
Post by: guy9000 on July 25, 2002, 03:21:04 AM

Thanks for your reply,
What I've done for now is change the smb.conf file.

[global]
# from:
map to guest = never
# to:
map to guest = bad user


[printers]
#from:
browseable = no
guest ok = no
writable = no
# to:
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = yes

now anyone any print.

-guy9000