Cups, my love...

[Eric44]

Hello!

Thank you for your Samba documentation!
I've been dreaming of having a Linux print server on my AD2008R2, and thanks to you, it's almost a reality!

I installed Samba4 from a fresh Debian 8 installation, following your tutorial.

Everything went perfectly; my server is correctly registered as a member server, and my users and groups are showing up correctly.
I followed the tutorial to the end, including file sharing, even though that part won't be used.

I then switched to the CUPS tutorial,

but I'm a little stuck

. 1. Why is it necessary to remove Samba at the beginning of the tutorial when the procedure requires having Samba installed beforehand? And at the end of the tutorial, it says to modify the samba.conf file (and therefore Samba must be installed, right?).

A little clarification would be welcome.

2. I can add printers under CUPS and print test pages (I have Kyocera, Ricoh, and Lexmark printers),
but I can't install the drivers for my different clients on the server... Do you have any ideas on this?


Finally, I can't administer the CUPS server via the MMC "Print Management" because of permissions problems, even though I thought the domain admins group had all the rights on the server (because of the first tutorial...).

Thank you for any replies.

Eric

[Yvan Karmouta]

Good morning,

Our samba/cups documentation dates back to 2014... I'll update it quickly

In the meantime, I advise you to check the directory:

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/var/lib/samba/usershares/imprimantes

does exist on the cups server
and set the rights:

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chgrp -R "domain admins"  /var/lib/samba/usershares/imprimantes/
chmod -R 2755  /var/lib/samba/usershares/imprimantes/
setfacl -R -m g:"domain admins":rwx /var/lib/samba/printers
setfacl -R -d -m g:"domain admins":rwx /var/lib/samba/printers
chmod -R g+rwx /var/lib/samba/printers
chown -R administrator:"domain admins" /var/lib/samba/printers

Do you have any interesting information in the file?

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/var/log/samba/log.smbd

Good day
Yvan

[Maelvon]

By following the https://dev.tranquil.it/wiki/SAMBA_-_Samba4_et_CUPS

I don't see any sharing options for this folder:

/var/lib/samba/usershares/printers

in "smb.conf". There's something I don't understand. What's the point of creating this directory?