Re: Samba Printer sharing

[Kenneth Tindle <ktindle uky edu>]

> The windows machines can see the printer, however, in the properties they 
> show Access denied, unable to connect.

This is normal MS-RPC behavior.

Later releases of Samba 2.2 implement printer ACL, similar to what is
present for an NTFS filesystem.  By default, you can only see the
queue, and have to grant extra permissions from a Windows 2000 or XP
box by logging into the Samba print share with root permissions.

This is part of Samba's attempt to implement automatic driver down-
load for printers.  Using Microsoft Remote Procedure Call on port
135.  A serious security flaw in the MS-RPC code is what the Blaster
worm(s) exploited.

You are tripping over a new feature of Samba.  It is a feature, not
a bug.