I had a correctly functioning Samba server with file and printer sharing funciton. Now, I am moving away the file shares, and the Samba only serves print services. Since then my users are unable to print from Adobe Acrobat Reader. From Microsoft Word, the printing is working correctly. However, if the user previously has connected to a file share, then the printing from Adobe Acrobat goes well. It is quite strange, that within specific applications, the printing functions only, when there is a separate file share connection. Maybe it is some kind of authentication problem? The system is Debian unstable, with samba version 3.0.14a-Debian (package version) Best Regards, GK
Most likely, the client is not authenticating to the print server. Are you logged onto the client using credentials that are valid on the Samba server? At this point, I really don't think this is a bug in Samba, but rather a client issue. But I'm open for discussion if you can convince me otherwise with a network trace or level 10 Samba debug logs.
Yes, I have the same feelings. The login credentials are different on the local machine from the Samba print servers. The strange thing that some application manage to authenticate. I am not sure, wheter is it a samba bug or an interworking problem. What is the autentication method for printing? Is it possible for e.g the Acrobat reader to authenticate before submitting the print job? Or is that some kind of tweak that allows the MS Office suit to authenticate before printing? Is there a known workaround/solution to this? Best Regards, GK
You will have the same problems in a Windows only network. Possible solutions are (a) enable guest printing on the server (b) synchronize the account names and passwords on the sambs servers with the ones use to logon to the windows clients. Closing onw since this really isn't our bug.