Print Sharing Permission Issue???

I am setting up print sharing with a Lexmark X5400 series printer. Workss fine on the local machine and connectivity to the share seems fine as well. When I print from any other machine (in this case Win XP) there is no error but it does not print.
I have verified all firewall sharing settings. I found the following error in the console log?
kCGErrorRangeCheck : Window Server communications from outside of session allowed for root and console user only
Why would print sharing be restricte to root or console users? Is there a way around this?

Ahhh yes! :-O
How much/how far did you get with Sig's suggestion either here...
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3012.html
Or here...
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3014.html
???

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Sharing permission issues

i'm a mac newbie.
I have external hardisks that I partitioned into different volumes to act as my backup for different media. For example, there's a volume for music, pictures, etc. Because these are backups, I don't want any user beside me to access these volumes. So I set sharing permission as the following:
Me - Read and Write
Staff - Read only (What does staff mean?)
Others - No Access
However, when I tested and switched to a guest and a temp user I created, they can add, read, delete files from the volume root. They cannot however do anything to folders.
Questions:
1. Is security and sharing/permissions applicable to folders and down and not to the root volume?
2. How do I make it so that only I can access the volume from the root down.
Thanks.

Gizzzo wrote:
2. How do I make it so that only I can access the volume from the root down.
Bottom line: you can't. Oh, you might be able to set the preferences so no users can access the drive when it's connected to your machine. (This isn't something that I have ever needed to do, so I'm not sure enough to answer that part.) But you should be aware that there's really no barrier against someone unplugging the drive from your machine, plugging it in to a different one with different users, and accessing all your data.
So, I guess the question is, how safe do you need this to be? Do you just need to make sure that no other users using your computer have access to those drives? Or do you need to keep those files totally secure? In the latter case, the only sure bet is encryption, which can be achieved using an encrypted disk image created with Disk Utility.

Another Printing (CUPS) permission issue

I have just upgraded to 10.5.2 (and the recent security update), and printing stopped. Whenever I try to print, the job is spooled successfully, then I get:
unable to open print file "/private/var/spool/cups/d05259-001" - Permission denied.
Help please. Anyone seen this?
-- Dave

I am in the midst of repairing permissions now (which has been running for over 12 hours so far!) I originally tried to fix it by resetting permissions on the boot volume (and all enclosed files!) to rwxrwxrwx for everyone. That fixed the printing problem, but gave me others (I can't open Activity Monitor anymore).
I haven't yet tried to reset the printing system. I guess that is next.

E3000 file and printer sharing issues

Yes, there is at least one other thread on this but it looked a bit stale.
Last Friday I replaced my BEFSR41 router and WRT54G wireless access point (which had gone brick on me) with an E3000.The E3000 is configured as a DHCP server at 192.168.168.65 with a scope of 66-115. The only other non-default setting is that I opened up the custom port for my slingbox.
Prior to making the switch, I had several network shares on an XP desktop that I used frequently from my Vista laptop. Now, however, I can no longer even "see" any other computer from any of the computers on the network, much less access their shared folders. In other words, if I view the network from any of these machines, the only machine that shows up is the machine itself. Everything else (internet access, slingbox, a print server) is working just fine.
One of the suggestions in the other thread was to turn off Norton Internet Security, which is of course not a viable option. However I did check the settings, relaxed the network default to "Shared", and raised the XP desktop to "Full Trust". This had no effect.
I pinged the various computers, and was able to do so by their IP addresses, but not by their computer names (that worked with the old router). On a hunch, I tried creating a mapped drive, and that also worked when I used the IP address, but not when I used the computer name.
So - there's nothing wrong with the network configuration, or with how the shares are set up, and Norton isn't the problem. The only problem seems to be that names aren't being resolved, which could be affecting windows discovery, too. Did the BEFSR41 provide some local DNS functionality by default, and the E3000 doesn't? Is there an option I need to enable? If so, I can't find it. Perhaps I should explicitly add the E3000's internal IP address as a third nameserver??
A note on the "support" I tried to get before I turned to the forums: The "Chat agent" asked a bunch of questions, misunderstood my configuration and my problem, and once he finally did understand said "we don't support file and printer sharing". It took me several more questions to learn that he really meant that the Chat facility isn't the place for these questions - I had to call the 800 number. I did that, and after several minutes on hold, reached an agent. After going through everything again, and with the rep going on hold several times to "speak to his supervisor", he said it was "beyond his competence". I was eventually told I had to call another FEE-BASED service. I told him that was unacceptable.

Ok, another update and possibly some clues.
I was curious why at one point, when all the computers were in Workgroup2, that "Workgroup" still showed up in Explorer under the list of networks, but only on the two XP machines. Netscan showed this group association as well, which I then realized was the E3000 itself, in its role as a [I]potential[/I] NAS server. However there was no storage device attached.
Could this in itself cause the access error? If so, should users be advised that if they don't plan to host any storage, that they should to go to the E3000 Storage Administration page and change the workgroup name to something other than their actual workgroup name?
In my case, I changed it to "Workgroupx", though perphaps something like "StorageGroup" would be more meaningful, especially if the Workgroup computers could still access any storage I might install in the future.
Anyway, I repeated my original approach (after the above change and a router reboot), and at least got my original Workgroup reestablished to the point where the XP machines not longer get access errors, and most machines can access the shares on the XP desktop. The steps I used on each machine were:
remove any shares I had set up on any folders
uninstalled the File and Printer Sharing service
Accessed Computer Name properties page to change the workgroup name
Shut Down
After all 4 were done, I reversed the process:
Started computer (now coming up in new Workgroup)
Reinstalled File and Printer Sharing service
Checked visibility
At this point, the XP machines could see each other, and the Win7 and Vista machines could see each other, but initially these two cliques wouldn't interact.
Next I re-added the shared folders on the XP desktop, and the XP netbook could see and access them. After about an hour, the Win7 machine joined this clique, and could also access the shares. But six hours later, the Vista machine is still clueless. Netscan shows everything of course, and I used it to set up a mapped drive on the Vista machine to one of the shared folders.
Other possibly relevant facts:
The was all working fine with the BEFRS41/WAP54G combo
I can ping all machines by IP address, but not by name
On the Vista machine I can set up mapped drives to the XP's shared folders, but again, only by IP address.
At one point I removed NWLink from the XP desktop. Now, nbtstat -r only shows the printserver's name being resolved.
The two XP machines, being SP3, lack the LLTD responder.
So,
Is it possible the NetBIOS in NWLink was providing some kind of name caching? If so, should I reinstall the protocol driver (I don't think it is available on Win7)?
Should I request and apply the KB922120 hotfix to get LLTD onto the XP machines?
Perhaps in the morning, "by name" access will have returned, as it did on my first go-round. Needless to say this has been a real pain, what with all the reboots required. At least now I remember to hit F8 so I can select Safe Mode with Networking...

Weird printer sharing issue

I have an iMac running 10.4 and a MacBook running 10.5. The iMac is connected to a printer and set up to share. I successfully printed one document from my MacBook to this shared printer. The next one wouldn't print; it just got stuck on "looking for" the printer. I messed around with it a bit, reinstalled the driver, nothing.
Finally I deleted the printer from my MacBook's list. Maybe a mistake, because now it can no longer "see" it. If I try to re-add that printer... I click on the + button and the shared printer appears on the list for a fraction of a second, and then it's gone, so I can't add it.
Tried restarting etc., all the usual stuff. I'm stumped and desperate. Anyone?

Sometimes printer manufacturers use different print drivers for different versions of Mac OS X and this prevents printer sharing from working properly between, say, 10.4 and 10.5. Like EPSON's drivers for their printers may say they work with "10.3 - 10.5" but there are different versions of the driver in the installer package and the appropriate one is used at install time based on the system you're running.
I went through this too, and found that printing to a shared printer worked from 10.4 to 10.4 and 10.5 to 10.5, but not 10.4 to 10.5 or vice versa. Make sense?
Now I'm just having trouble in general with printer sharing (I think the 10.5.6 update hosed it).

File permission issues

I cannot access any printer plug-ins by going the HD>Library>Printer>Epson>Inkjet route. All the plug-ins are grayed out so I cannot load them. I am attempting to add a printer attached to a windows machine. I followed all the instructions, I can see the correct plug-in, but I cannot load the plug-in.
The second permission issue is moving jpeg files to the DVD or to a windows machine on the network. I am the owner of the files and all the folders are marked read and write. I also have checked windows file sharing.
I have also done the repair permission route.
I am new to Macs, so this is probably a simple ix, it just does not show up in the searches I have made in the Help menu or support topics. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Thanks for the tip, but I have tried every known fix listed anywhere and still am missing something somewhere. I can access the correct drivers when I connect the epson directly to the laptop and it will work. I can almost access the print drivers if I use IP Print when connecting to the printer across the workgroup. Almost, in that the drivers are no longer grayed-out, but if I select them, I still get generic print driver and it ignores the Epson driver. For some reason, if I try to install the driver for the printer while it is attached to a PC on the windows nworkgroup, using windows print, the print utility will not allow me to use the print driver. It has got to be something silly that I am missing.

File and Printer Sharing problem

Message Edited by bartman_60042 on 11-13-2007 05:47 AM

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My set-up: Linksys Cable Modem with Linksys Wireless Router. 2 Desktop Computers (Black and Grey) and 1 Laptop. Windows XP SP2 with all current upgrades on each.
While setting up File and Printer Sharing, I have the following:
1) The Black computer can file/printer share from both the Grey computer and Laptop.
2) The Grey computer can only file/printer share from the Laptop; not from the Black computer.
3) The Laptop can only file/printer share from the Grey computer; not from the Black computer.
All 3 computers were configured the same as far as I can tell. The only difference I notice is that the Black computer boots without the XP 'login' screen (no password required), could this be causing the problem? If this is the issue, how would I change the settings to 'login' to the Black computer? Any thing else which may be wrong?

File and Printer Sharing Problem with WRT54G

I am currently having problems sharing files over my network. My setup consists of:
3 laptops (wireless)
1 desktop (wired)
WRT54G V6.0 router with firmware version 1.00.9.
All of the computers have File and Printer Sharing enabled, unique names, and are on the same workgroup. However none of the computers can see one another. When I try to view workgroup computers for my network places, the explorer window stops responding for about 30 sec. and then spits out a dialog with the error:
"Workgroup is not accessable. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.
The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available."
I think that this problem has something to do with the router, as I have been successfuly sharing files and a printer with these settings using a microsoft 802.11b router for over a year. After purchasing the linksys and swapping it out with my old router, filesharing no longer functions.
I have spent a little time browsing the forums and have seen other posts from people with simmiler problems, but was unable to find any solutions.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

I'm having the same problems as you are, I have 2 computers on wired the other wireless the router is in between and I can't access from either side, although I can ping and remote connect but just cannot share files across the network. I have looked all over the forums too and there saying to ditch linksys and do something else.
Its not you thats caused this it is the firmware and the router that have the problems.
My Specs:
WRT-54G
v5.0
That new firmware update 1.00.9 just isn't working right. I might downgrade my fireware to fix this problem.
Message Edited by justin2006 on 09-26-200612:24 PM

File & Printer Sharing with Windows Vista

Hi All,
I work in a small office, I'm the only mac user & I supply my own Macbook 10.5.6.
We have just had a new Samsung printer installed in the office which all PC's have been enabled for printer sharing, but I cant seem to get my Mac to pick up the Shared printer. I'm also trying to set up a folder on the main PC that I can send files to from my mac. The shared folder has been created on Windows Vista - but I'm unable to see that shared folder in finder. Could these 2 issues be related? please can someone help me make my work days just a little bit easier
Thanks so much

I would like to add that I DO NOT want to share my laptop at all. It is my personal computer & if I can set up file sharing from my mac to the main PC on vista while still blocking any access to my computer.
I am currently following this procedure - http://www.ifelix.net/tech/3022.html

Printer Sharing Problem in Work group

Hi all !
I’m using HP Laserjet 1300 Printer. I connect my Printer to my windows xp computer and share this printer with other computers in my network. I attached all –in - one computer (Wireless) in to my network. I used wireless router also. But i unable to install HP LaserJet 1300 Printer in my all-in-one computer. it generate error message “No drivers install” then I download the drivers for windows 7 home premium (64 –bit) and install. but problem not solve. I’m using windows 7 home premium (64 –bit) Os in my all-in-one. I can share folders between my all-in-one PC and other PC’s in my workgroup. but I can’t share this printer. Please help me
Thank you
Chamath

Hi Chamath,
I assume your XP machine is 32bit (most are)? Here are a couple guides that may help:
http://goo.gl/br6c
and
http://goo.gl/4Eun
Also, here is a Microsoft Article to ensure that you have Windows 7 setup properly for printer sharing (article is for Vista, but works just as well for 7):
http://goo.gl/WVO6U
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Windows Server 2008r2 Printer Sharing

Hi folks,
I have a Windows Server 2008r2 set up as my workstation and I'd like to share the printer with my wife's MacBook. I've set up Printing Services on WS2008r2 and enabled IPP, LPD and everything else I could think of.
The printer sharing works, our other laptop which is Win7 can use it normally, but setting up the share on a Mac is a whole new kettle of fish.
I couldn't get it to connect via IPP, Mac keeps insisting on port 631 even though IPP is running on port 80 here. I have no idea what to put into the address field, if I copy/paste the URL the Mac doesn't recognise it. If I just put in the server name it's happy but insists on connecting to port 631.
Next came LPD which seems to work, Mac connects to the server and picks up the printer. Which brings me to the next problem. If I use standard generic postscript driver then nothing happens, printer gets switched on on the server and stops. An event log entry reports an LPD error:
"The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) service received commands in an invalid format from 192.168.2.106 and refused the print job. This can occur if the Line Printer Remote (LPR) client is incompatible with the Windows LPD service and Request for Comments (RFC) 1179. Try printing using a different LPR client."
The printer is a Canon Pixma iP5200R. If I switch the printer options from generic postscript to a Canon printer it will print but it only uses about 60% of the space, so everything is shrunk on the page. It does print the full content of the page, just makes everything smaller. I managed to get this far by selecting one of the BJC (Bubblejet) models from the drop-down list.
I've installed Canon's driver for iP5200 from their site but it's not available anywhere on the Mac. How do I tell the Mac to use a different driver?
I feel I'm getting close to fixing this, but now the problem is in Macland and I'm not too familiar with it.
Anyone got any suggestions? Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!

I'm going to apologize first because I don't have a real solution and my post will sound negative, but my experience may give some insight.
My experience is that Apple didn't get Windows printing "done right" until 10.5. Prior to that, I could never print to a Canon S800 printer attached to a Vista Ultimate machine. With the printer attached to a XP machine, I could print, but it would often fail. (Just no output and OSX saying printer was offline.) This was with a G3 B&W with 10.3 and a iMac with 10.4. And like you, I did try the IPP and LPD settings but just never got a usable setup.
Then I got a Macbook Pro with 10.5. Printing worked fine straight out of the box to the same S800 printer on Vista. Mac Mini with 10.5 worked also. Upgraded both to 10.6 and printing still works. Even a clean reload of 10.6 on the Macbook, Windows printing is fine. Also to a Epson R280 attached to the same Vista machine.
Windows 2008, having more in common with Vista and Win7, I'd guess that you may be having similar issues to me. I don't know of any fix, other than 10.5. If you have a friend with a newer Mac, then you can test it. (Otherwise, if you can upgrade your Mac to 10.5 or 10.6. But testing with a friend's Mac would save the cost of buying an OSX upgrade if it didn't work.)
Like I said, no real solution, other than possibly upgrading to 10.5/10.6. So maybe just a pointer to a different line of thinking. Good luck!

Windows Server 2008r2 Printer Sharing over vlan

Hi folks,
I have a Windows Server 2008r2 set up as my workstation and I'd like to share the printer with 4 new macs. I've set up Printing Services on WS2008r2 and enabled IPP, LPD and everything else I could think of.
The printer sharing works, our other laptop which is Win7 can use it normally, but setting up the share on a Mac is a whole new kettle of fish.
I couldn't get it to connect via IPP, Mac keeps insisting on port 631 even though IPP is running on port 80 here. I have no idea what to put into the address field, if I copy/paste the URL the Mac doesn't recognise it. If I just put in the server name it's happy but insists on connecting to port 631.
Next came LPD which seems to work, Mac connects to the server and picks up the printer. Which brings me to the next problem. If I use standard generic postscript driver then nothing happens, printer gets switched on on the server and stops. An event log entry reports an LPD error:
"The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) service received commands in an invalid format from 172.16.8.106 and refused the print job. This can occur if the Line Printer Remote (LPR) client is incompatible with the Windows LPD service and Request for Comments (RFC) 1179. Try printing using a different LPR client."
The printer is a Brother hl-6050D/DN series. If I switch the printer options from generic postscript to a Brother printer it will print but it only uses about 60% of the space, so everything is shrunk on the page. It does print the full content of the page, just makes everything smaller. I managed to get this far by selecting one of the BJC (Bubblejet) models from the drop-down list.
I've installed Brother's driver for 5060D/DN from their site but it's not available anywhere on the Mac. How do I tell the Mac to use a different driver?
I feel I'm getting close to fixing this, but now the problem is in Macland and I'm not too familiar with it.
Anyone got any suggestions? Any help would be appreciated!+
Thanks!

I'm going to apologize first because I don't have a real solution and my post will sound negative, but my experience may give some insight.
My experience is that Apple didn't get Windows printing "done right" until 10.5. Prior to that, I could never print to a Canon S800 printer attached to a Vista Ultimate machine. With the printer attached to a XP machine, I could print, but it would often fail. (Just no output and OSX saying printer was offline.) This was with a G3 B&W with 10.3 and a iMac with 10.4. And like you, I did try the IPP and LPD settings but just never got a usable setup.
Then I got a Macbook Pro with 10.5. Printing worked fine straight out of the box to the same S800 printer on Vista. Mac Mini with 10.5 worked also. Upgraded both to 10.6 and printing still works. Even a clean reload of 10.6 on the Macbook, Windows printing is fine. Also to a Epson R280 attached to the same Vista machine.
Windows 2008, having more in common with Vista and Win7, I'd guess that you may be having similar issues to me. I don't know of any fix, other than 10.5. If you have a friend with a newer Mac, then you can test it. (Otherwise, if you can upgrade your Mac to 10.5 or 10.6. But testing with a friend's Mac would save the cost of buying an OSX upgrade if it didn't work.)
Like I said, no real solution, other than possibly upgrading to 10.5/10.6. So maybe just a pointer to a different line of thinking. Good luck!

Printer sharing with Windows 7 64 bit

I am trying to install an HP laserjet 1320 printer connected to a Windows XP Pro 32 bit machine. Windows 7 goes out and tries to find the approriate drivers but reports that a suiable driver could not be found. The printer installs fine when connected to the Windows 7 machine via USB port. Downloaded and unzipeed the Universal print driver HP's site says is the correct driver - no luck. Tried installing using the share name - same error message.

I found that I had issues with getting all of these to work - individually. I have an XPPro (32) pc trying to print to Win7Ultimate printer - printer is shared with all settings wide open, works great with another 7 or Vista machine, but same errors
as above for XP. I got it to work an old way, and then the "local port" way worked. I don't really know why as yet, but I am investigating.
My Solution -
1. As stated in other posts, install the printer locally on the XP machine. Make sure that it prints.
2. Connect the printer to the 7 machine, print a test, then change the file and print sharing options to "yes". I also installed the "Universal Driver" for my printer - HP1200 Laserjet.
3. Make sure that the Network type that the 7 machine sees is "Work" or "Home", not "Public". - I don't know if this really did anything or not, but I did make the change - mine thought the network was "Public".
4. Go back to the XP machine, if you get errors when you add the "Local Port" as suggested, then do this -
Warning Old Dos Trick -
- Open a Command Prompt, then type (without quotes) "net use Lpt1 \\COMPUTERNAME\PRINTERSHARE " - where "computername" is the name of the computer and sharename is the shared name of the printer
on that computer.
- you SHOULD see "command completed successfully", if not check to make sure that you have rights on the 7 machine. Now you should be able to print a test page to the printer. CAUTION - it took awhile for the changes to
take, so you may have the hourglass looking at you for a few minutes. - Once you reboot this will not work as the connection is just for that session.
To explain: this command is the dos version of what happens when you re-route output to a different destination - thus any traffic to LPT1 goes to \\computername\sharename.
5. After this worked, I then could add the "local port", as detailed earlier and had no errors.
Hope this helps someone else!

Printer Sharing thru Vista

We had setup Printer Sharing a few months ago when I had a sony vaio notebook after MUCH difficulty and stress. It turned out to be the Norton Internet Security was the issue. We changed the trust control level and that allowed the 2 computers to communicate with each other. NOW my mom has a dv5t and we also have a family computer (Pavilion a6460t). Both systems are running Windows Vista Home Premium w/SP1 32 Bit. Now we're using NIS 2009 on both of the computer and I'm trying to setup Printer Sharing for her so she can print from her laptop to the printer that's connected thru a USB cable to the desktop computer. However I'm experience difficulty yet again and don't have a clue as to what's going on. Right now both computers are set to "Private Network" on the Network & Sharing Center. Network Discovery is ON for both computers. Printer Sharing is turned ON on both computers. Password protected sharing is turned off for both computers. Both the laptop and desktop are connected to the SAME wireless router (Linksys WRT610N). Also to be clear the Workgroup for both systems is "WORKGROUP" The laptop's computer name is "JSimpson-PC" and the desktop's name is "SIMPSONFAMILY-PC". Yet when I go to the Network & Sharing Center and click on "View full map" the map on my the desktop ends up showing ONLY the desktop connected to the router connected to the internet globe. It's like it does not recognize the laptop that's connected to the SAME wireless router (Linksys WRT610N) I go to the dv5t and I go to Network & Sharing Center, click on "View full map" and the SAME thing happens. The map shows the laptop's PC Name connected to the router connected to the Internet globe. Again it's like the he laptop does not recognize the desktop. However the network map that appears when I click on "View ful map" for BOTH systems shows the XBox 360 which is connected to the router thru an ethernet cable.... As for NIS 2009 I tried changing the network trust level to FULL TRUST and that didn't change anything...so I don't know what else to do or what's going on. I tried contacting Linksys thinking it might have to do with the wireless router but they told me that it has nothing to do with them and that I should contact MS or HP. However I think it may have to do with the router and I was wondering if maybe someone on here who's expert may know something. I would appreciate any and all help.

I was having the same problem with not being able to share files/printers. At first I would blame Vista but ultimately it was the router. This took just a simple search
on google but this is what you can try...
Go to router web-based utility and then to "port range forwarding"
Enter a name for the first item like "Printer Sharing1"
Enter range of 137 to 139 and select "both" and then enter the ip
address of the computer(laptop) not connected to the printer
Add a checkmark and then "save settings"
Enter a second item ie "Printer Sharing2"
Enter range of 445 to 445 and select "tcp" or "both" and again
enter the ip of the non-sharing computer and save.
After doing this I have never had a problem sharing files or printers.
Hope this helps...

Windows 7 Printer Sharing

I have a HP PSC 2410 connected to a computer running windows 7. Win 7 detected and installed the printer just fine and there are no issues printing. I have a laptop running XP and I'll be darned if i can get the Win 7 computer to spool print jobs for the laptop. Works fine when I boot into Vista. I have the print sharing set up and I can see the XP machine from the Win7 machine just fine. Everything I have read says I need to install the XP drivers on the Win 7 machine. Does this mean I need to download the large, all-in-one file for XP and install on the Win 7 machine? Just concerned this may cause an issue. I've looked just for just the driver file to no avail. Any ideas?
Thanks!

I too am stumped, seems no one has an answer. Looks like we will need to upgrade the laptop to Win 7 in order to be able to print. Although I was able to print using the RC version, now using the RTM version thats now not the case.
I did try installing XP drivers onto the WIn 7 PC, but wouldn't install no matter what method I tried.
And since HP won't be developing Win 7 drivers anytime soon, we'll just have to wait.
Unless anyone knows differently!

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