Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 121290
smbspool requires userid even when no specific userid is required by XP
Last modified: 2014-08-31 19:26:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: I have a shared printer under Windows XP. I wanted to print on the printer from Windows XP. N specific userid is required to print on the printer from XP (in fact, I am not sure how to set that up - I am able to check "shared" or "not shared". I reied setting up the printer with CUPS directly, using the "web" interface, and I tried setting up the printer using redhat-config-printer. The smbspool command, used under the covers by CUPS, produced the following error message and never allowed the file to print: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-client-3.0.2-7.FC1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a Windows XP system 2. Configure an attached printer 3. Try to print on the printer using Actual Results: In all cases, I was able to reduce the problem to what you see when you use this command: [root@quickdraw log]# smbspool smb://MAID/GATEWAY/HPOffice a b c d e secure failed tcon_X with NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED ERROR: Connection failed with error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED ERROR: Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds... [root@quickdraw log]# I hit contol C to get out of the program - it would sit and retry once a minute forever. Changing the command as follows: [root@quickdraw log]# smbspool smb://guest@MAID/GATEWAY/HPOffice a b c d e secure allows the command to work. Expected Results: I expected the file to print. I believe that there is some incompatability between how smbspool hanles the case where no specific userid and password is required by windows to access a printer and the way Windows XP deals with the problem. Additional info: There is a similar issue when you try to mount shares using autofs. You have to specify a userid. But between Win98 and XP, there were some changes made on the windows side and suddenly I had to specify a username when doing SMB access. The system called "gateway" above is in the same workgroup (MAID) as the Linux Box here, and it is on the same ethernet. It may interest you to know that the guest account is disabled on that system - that is, it has no guest account at all. I was able to get the printer I configured via redhat-config-printer to work simply by specifying a userid of guest in the appropriate screen, without a password. I was able to get the printer I added via CUPS to print by specifying the userid in the smb URL. It is possible that this could be fixed in CUPS or in CUPS and redhat-config-printer instead of smbspool. I did web searches and noted that several people had asked this question in various lists and forums, but I never saw it answered.
I really searched in a lot of places to try and find this bug, including googling and reading through many summaries and doing very broad searches. I was doing an additional search to e-mail a couple of the people who were complaining about this issue in various places on the web when my searches found http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2003-276.html and bug 104293 against Redhat 9. However, that bug claims that the bug should be fixed in redhat-config-printer-0.6.75-1, and I am running redhat-config-printer-0.6.79.5-1. Either the patch fell off, or it was reversed, or they changed XP in a way that makes samba break or something. I have also read through the errata. It could have been more specific, I guess I believe that when no userid or password is needed by the system for printing, that none need be specified. Looking at the man page for smbspool makes it clear that it is legitimate to *not* specify a userid or password in the URL. Finally, any userid works equally well. I reconfigured the printer to use the userid zithead (which does not and never has existed on the gateway system and also has no special meanings in contexts other than the teenage acne sort), and the result was just as excellent as when I used the userid guest. [njs@quickdraw njs]$ rpm -q redhat-config-printer redhat-config-printer-0.6.79.5-1 You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/njs [njs@quickdraw njs]$ rpm -q cups cups-1.1.19-13 You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/njs [njs@quickdraw njs]$ rpm -q samba samba-3.0.2-7.FC1 To me, this makes it clear that the bug is in samba, and not in redhat-config-printer and CUPS. I did find some bugs when I was doing my research which indicated that different things might be done when a userid was vs. was not specified on a command.
Then I found 104136. This is probably an actual duplicate of that. If you agree, close it as a dup.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104136 ***