Understanding the export printer driver feature
Kurt Pfeifle
kpfeifle at danka.de
Fri Apr 11 16:01:57 CEST 2003
A.Th.C.Hulst wrote:
> On Friday 11 April 2003 V 14:27, you wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
>>I *think* you are wrong... (but I can't verify, because I don't have a
>>Windows domain environment here), regarding two points:
>>
>>*1* cupsaddsmb doesn't *require* root (it makes it easier); you can have
>>any "Samba user" and specify it with "-U". This:
>>
>> cupsaddsmb -U kurt -v DANKA_infotec_2035
>
> Hmm, yes, tried that. cupsaddsmb still wanted to authenticate root. I've set
>
> [printers]
> .....
> guest ok = yes
> .....
> printer admin = hulst
>
> [print$]
> ...
> # (just to be sure, set it back later)
> guest ok = yes
> read only = yes
> write list = hulst
>
> And I still got:
> # cupsaddsmb -U hulst -a -v
> Password for root required to access localhost via SAMBA:
Strange. I can even use
kde-bitshop: # cupsaddsmb -U phantasyname -v PDFgen
Password for phantasyname required to access localhost via SAMBA:
No need to re-start smbd either.
> Now, since it was pretty late yesterday, it might be that I forgot to restart
> smb, but I'm pretty sure I did.
>
>
>>*2* As far as authentication against a domain PDC is concerned, did you
>> try this way to authenticate? See here:
>>
>> cupsaddsmb -U DOMAINNAME\\kurt -v DANKA_infotec_2035
>>
>
> No I didn't. That might have helped. It is true that I made a mess of the
> authentication yesterday, because I couldn't get it to work.
;-)
Cheers,
Kurt
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