Understanding the export printer driver feature

[Kurt Pfeifle]

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