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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2000-11-10 15:33:15 +0000
committerGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2000-11-10 15:33:15 +0000
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added more explanation about the required permissions (and authorization)
in order to add printer drivers to a samba server. jerry (This used to be commit b4e2fc0bd223993e61f215c89167e8549254c214)
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diff --git a/docs/textdocs/PRINTER_DRIVER2.txt b/docs/textdocs/PRINTER_DRIVER2.txt
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+++ b/docs/textdocs/PRINTER_DRIVER2.txt
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ print servers to provide support for printer driver download.
</aside>
You should modify the server's smb.conf file to create the
-following share (of course, some of the parameter values,
+following file share (of course, some of the parameter values,
such as 'path' are arbitrary and should be replaced with
appropriate values for your site):
@@ -110,8 +110,31 @@ each architecture you wish to support.
|-W32PPC ; "Windows NT PowerPC"
-These directories should be owned by an administrative account.
-Currently this must initially be an "root" account (uid = 0).
++++++++++++++ ATTENTION! REQUIRED PERMISSIONS +++++++++++++++++
+
+Currently, the connected user must have uid 0 in order to
+successfully install a new printer driver. There are two
+points of authorization in this process.
+
+ o Access permissions to add files to the [print$]
+ share. This access control is managed using
+ the same semantics as normal file shares.
+ (i.e. filesystem permissions, write list,
+ writeable, etc...)
+
+ o Authorization to add entries to
+
+ $SAMBA/var/locks/ntdrivers.tdb
+
+ Updates to this TDB are curently restricted
+ to the root account.
+
+Therefore, you must be connected to the samba host as the
+root user in order to add a new printer driver.
+
+
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
!== The Windows NT APW