[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#643790: Bug#643790: Bug#643790: /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf failed when printing via samba to cups pdf

[Volker C. Behr]

On 10/02/11 17:05, Ben Whyall wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> I am the developer of CUPS-PDF.
>> I have been following this bug but not been able to reproduce it so far.
>> There is one question that might help to narrow down the possible
>> culprit: when printig via Samba, the username is "whyteb". Is this user
>> known on your Linux box or is it supposed to do an anonymous printout?
>>
>> In case it is supposed to be an anonymous printout: what are the
>> ownership/permissions on /home/ben/PDFS (if that exists at all) as well
>> as /home/ben and /home? And is /home/ben a local filesystem or some
>> Samba/NFS/... volume?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Volker
>>
>
> Hi Volker
>
> The user whyteb is my windows username on my corporate machine. It
> should be an anonymous print out as I share my printers to anyone on my
> local network or I am trying to.
>
> The /home/ben directory is a local filesystem on the CUPS box.
>
> The permissions on /home/ben/PDFS/ are drwx------ ben ben
> The permissions on /home/ben/ are drwxr-xr-x ben ben
> The permisions on /home are drwxr-xr-x root root.
>
> Ben

Hi Ben,

with those permission, anonymous printing would only work if you set the 
AnonUser to ben, since no one else is allowed to access the output 
directory.
I read your other posting stating that after the update CUPS-PDF works 
fine - so that resolves this issue but I will keep trying to reproduce 
the original one to figure out why the backend failed. Thanks again for 
the information you provided on that!

Regards,
Volker


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