4.3 The printers section
[printers] is also a special share that allows the sharing of printers accessible to the server. This section is not commented
in the sample configuration file. The following is a list of options that are specified in the sample configuration
file:
- comment is how this share is seen by a client.
- browseable = no specifies that even if a client authenticates successfully to this server, the server does not
automatically show this share. A remote user needs to know the share name printers to connect to this share.
- path = /var/spool/samba specifies where to store spool files.
- printable = yes specifies that printing from a client is enabled. Think twice before keeping this option as
yes!
- guest ok = no specifies that only authenticated users can access printers.
- read only = yes specifies that a client can only print (create spool files), but not allowed to create arbitrary
files.
- create mask = 0700 specifies that any file created (spool files) is accessible only to the authenticated user.