printer and samba setup

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 11:04 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote:
> I want to setup FC3 as File and Print server for my company.I have
> configured samba for File server but yet to configure FC3 as
> Fileserver.My domain consists of Windows ,Unix and Linux clients.I
> have few problems (a and b part)
> 
> a) As my domain is a mixture of Windows,Unix and Linux ,what protocol
> to set for printer,as my printer will print for linux,unix and windows
> clients.It should be Cups IPP protocol or any other protocol.

cups can work for all clients, but your Windows clients might prefer to
print over samba, because the samba server can be configured to serve
out the printer drivers too, just like a Windows print server would,
saving the clients having to select the right driver and install it.

> b)i have setup the linux box (FC3) with samba with security = domain and
> password server = s1.sun.com(internal)
> 
> I have created one folder in which i have created some
> directories.There are different types of users in  my company some in
> development, some in administration , som e in top management.I have
> created some folders in which users can put their data to share among
> their colleagues or team.
> 
> What happens is that when somebody clicks on samba server all the
> folders which i have explicitly mentioned in the smb.conf are shown
> .Whereas what i want is that only those folders should come when the
> user access the samba server on which he has the right to access it.

Can't really help with this one, except to mention that you can have a
share name ending with "$", in which you'll only be able to connect to
that share if you know it exists - it won't show up in a browse list.
Not really what you're looking for, but it might be an alternative.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>