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      Wayne Workman @Joe Gill
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      @Joe-Gill You could host the drivers on a linux share. It’s an option. Here’s a tutorial I wrote:
      https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Password_Protected_Samba_Share

      This can easily be modified for anonymous read for everyone.

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        Joe Gill @Joe Schmitt
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        @Joe-Schmitt That share is hosted on our Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Service Pack 2 server. Thanks for repeating your response on forcing the service. I failed to read that. LOL!

        All I did when I created that share was follow the share “wizard” and plugged in all of the settings for the various users that need access to the share, including “anonymous login”. You can see the settings in the previous post that I made for “anonymous login”.

        @Wayne-Workman I may go that way. I’ve set Samba shares up a bunch of times with no problems and I do have a FreeNAS server setup too. I like the Samba shares better. So we’ll see. I’d kind of like to use the Windows Server for this one though.

        Thanks guys!

        Cheers,

        Joe

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          michael_f @Joe Gill
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          @Joe-Gill afaik you have to grant access to the “everyone”-group not anonymous. Don’t forget to set permissions in both sharing and security-tab.

          I’m wondering, why you install the printer with a snapin? If you can unzip the driver-package, you can put the unzipped files to your share and point directly to the appropriate inf-file instead of ntprint.inf in the fog printer-settings.
          I’m using this method with different epson models and a generic driver. As the printer-model is only detected automatically if the printer is online, I’m using config-files to prevent problems.

          Greets,
          Michael

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            Bob Henderson @Joe Gill
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            @Joe-Gill I’d strongly recommend getting off the 2003 server. That’s been End of Life and non-supported for nearly what, 18 months now?

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              Joe Gill @Bob Henderson
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              @Bob-Henderson I’m with you. We just updated one of our servers to 2008 here this year for our AD. I’m the new guy in the shop and we have budgets to make in a small district. It is what it is at this point.

              I’m just happy I’ve been able to at least dedicate some space on our virtual boxes to Linux to run FOG. 🙂

              @michael_f I have set our driver package on the share and am going to hopefully get ours going the same way. We shall see!

              @Joe-Schmitt I still haven’t gotten this set up correctly. If you get a minute this evening, let me know. I’ll be here until 5 MST. I’ll be on and off the forums all afternoon.

              I appreciate all of the advice!!

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                michael_f @Joe Gill
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                @Joe-Gill Can you verify that a normal user can access the share with windows explorer without providing credentials?

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                  Joe Gill @michael_f
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                  @michael_f I verified and I have access to the share as a user without entering credentials.

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                    Joe Schmitt Senior Developer
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                    @Joe-Gill that doesn’t mean it’s setup correctly. A normal user counts as a domain user and a domain bound machine.

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                      michael_f @Joe Gill
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                      @Joe-Gill As Joe Schmidt says, maybe the share is not setup correctly. Nevertheless I would try the following, costs you 5 minutes:

                      • put the unzipped files to the share

                      • figure out the path to the inf-file and set the path in printer-management dialog, Printer Config File can be left blank, the other settings should be fine
                        0_1468357539485_printerconfig.png

                      • Assign the printer to a client and see, if it gets installed. If not, check fog.log

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                        Joe Gill @michael_f
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                        @michael_f Looks like I’m headed the LInux Samba share route for now. I know that setup better. The Server 2003 is being a pain.

                        @Joe-Schmitt remoted in to our server and well it wasn’t being very kind. It still has permissions issues.

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                          Joe Gill
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                          Well, I got this to finally work. I installed SAMBA server and things are good to go! I have a few minor configuration issues to address but nothing serious. Everything is installing properly and tested out. 🙂

                          Thanks to those who helped! No thanks to Windows Server 2003!

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                            Wayne Workman @Joe Gill
                            last edited by Wayne Workman

                            @Joe-Gill Great job. Boo @Microsoft. Booooo

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