Trying to setup Samba

UNIX for Beginners Q & A
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I have a solaris 10 and a solaris 11 environment. I am trying to setup a Samba Share. Basically what I want to do is have a location on my unix boxes that can be accessed from a windows environment. I have the following entry in my smb.conf file however when i try to access the share from windows it prompts for creditials and once I enter them windows gives an error that it is missing a printer driver - and takes me to the install printer drivers screen. I do not want to do any print sharing just file sharing. Ultimately I want this to work for all users but just trying with one for now.

[DocuShare]
   comment = DocuShare
   path = /DocuShare
   valid users = Samba01
   browseable = yes
   public = yes
   writeable = yes
   printable = yes
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I think that this is because you have printable = yes set, i.e. make this share a print service not a "can I print files stored on this share". If the client can read the files, the client can print them however it usually prints anything else.

Have a look at the manual page smb.conf for more details.

I hope that this helps,
Robin