[NTLUG:Discuss] RE:New to samba, having problems trying to print from windwos 2000

[Jim Adams]

Here is a snippet from the Samba Conf docs. Perhaps this might help:

use client driver (S)
This parameter applies only to Windows NT/2000 clients. It has no affect on
Windows 95/98/ME clients. When serving a printer to Windows NT/2000 clients
without first installing a valid printer driver on the Samba host, the
client will be required to install a local printer driver. From this point
on, the client will treat the print as a local printer and not a network
printer connection. This is much the same behavior that will occur when
disable spoolss = yes.

The differentiating factor is that under normal circumstances, the NT/2000
client will attempt to open the network printer using MS-RPC. The problem is
that because the client considers the printer to be local, it will attempt
to issue the OpenPrinterEx() call requesting access rights associated with
the logged on user. If the user possesses local administator rights but not
root privilegde on the Samba host (often the case), the OpenPrinterEx() call
will fail. The result is that the client will now display an "Access Denied;
Unable to connect" message in the printer queue window (even though jobs may
successfully be printed).

If this parameter is enabled for a printer, then any attempt to open the
printer with the PRINTER_ACCESS_ADMINISTER right is mapped to
PRINTER_ACCESS_USE instead. Thus allowing the OpenPrinterEx() call to
succeed. This parameter MUST not be able enabled on a print share which has
valid print driver installed on the Samba server.