Sharing A Windows Printer server printer queues With Linux Machines using samba Ihab Khoury ikhoury at yahoo.com Thu Feb 12 23:36:17 GMT 2004
UPDATE:-
I was able to print using smbclient with a username
and use my PDC server pssword.
You don't exactly describe what configuration you used so you can't expect an exact answer to your problem. I am not even suire which Unix printing system your Samba (client) uses....
Has anyone set it up so that they sync PDC passwords with samba passwords? Or any other way so I do not have to enter password everytime I print?
No. If you use CUPS, it allows you to print thru an smb backend device URI of
smb;//username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/servername/printersharename
It spares you from typing in the username/password pair. But this is grossly unsecure, It sends your password over the wire unenecrypted. It stores your username/password combo in cleartext in "/etc/cups/printers.conf" and may even reveal it i n the process list (but makes some attempts to leave that part from the obvious displays....
Samba simply isn't exactly designed to print as a Windows client to a Windows print server. It works, somehow, but that's just it.
The idea for Samba is to take the Windows client print jobs as a *server*.... ;-)
Cheers, Kurt
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