I don't know, how to make a queue asking for the Windows login and
password, but you could either make 6 queues (one for every user,
security hole because of stored passwords), you can print through the
guest account or you make an additional Windows account with user name
"print" and a password. It is rather restricted (small home dir, ...)
but has full permission to print. Assign the Linux printing queue to
this account.
Till
"Liaw, Andy" wrote:
>
> Hi Till,
>
> Thanks a million for the tip! Wouldn't it be nice if the CUPS documentation
> says how to add username and password to the printer URI?
>
> One more question:
> I'm playing sysadmin of the Linux box for our group, which has 6 people.
> Everyone has their Windoze username and password to access the SMB printers
> on the corporate NT network. Is it possible to set things up so people will
> be using their own username and password to access the printers when they
> print from Linux? Right now I followed your tip and used my own username
> and password. This means everyone will be printing with my account. Worse,
> my username and password can be seen in plain text in
> /etc/cups/printers.conf!! Not only that, every time a print job sent under
> my name is completed, a message box pops up on my NT box. This is downright
> annoying, to say the least...
>
> Thanks again, and hope you (or others) can shed some light on the password
> issue.
>
