Invalid peer credentials for "root"

pipitas pipitas at gmail.com
Sat Dec 4 09:06:27 PST 2010


On 12/04/2010 04:37 PM, Tom Niemiec wrote:
> Hello,
> My name's Tom Niemiec and I'm writing because of a problem, that I have with CUPS.
>
> I'm working on a project for my collage graduate work and I have to create a Print Server on a pc with Linux.
>
> I'm using SAMBA for my domain server, my shares and for printers sharing.
> I successfully added a CUPS-PDF printer to the Print Server and also I successfully added the printer to two Windows XP PCs.

You're telling us more about your Windows ("it's XP") than about your 
Linux, your Samba and your CUPS...

So which is it in each case? Which version of Linux? Which version of 
Samba? Which version of CUPS? How is your Samba configured?

> The problem is that I can't print on them while being logged as a normal domain user ( via Windows xp ).
> To test if the printer works on Windows accounts I logged as root on the Windows machine and everything worked fine.
> The file was printed, it was created in the output folder I set in cups-pdf.conf and a successful line was written in the page_log file.
> Based on that the problem is not o the Windows side.
>
> When I tried to print something on the normal domain user account a line was created in the error_log:
>
> E [13/Nov/2010:22:47:34 +0100] Invalid peer credentials for "root" - got 1001, expected 0!
>
> Please I really need help with this. I'm working on my graduate work and this problem holds me back form  completing my work.
> If there are any information you need or screen shots, configuration files, please feel free to ask.
>
> Also I talked to Dr. rer. nat. Volker Christian Behr who created cups-pdf to find out if the problem lies on the cups-pdf side.
> After a few emails He gave me a hint
> "... to disable user-based access control for
> CUPS (since I never tried to do that nor am I using any Windows I cannot give you any hints on that) "
>
> Maybe someone knows how to do this or has an other solution, please help :)





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