Printing to Windows XP printer via Samba

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:40:03 -0400
David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:

> 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.
This should have no password. One thing that Windows XP does allow me
to do is to use a Windows ME driver, which I might end up doing, but
that means the system is guaranteed to crash more frequently :-).

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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