[cups.general] smbspool, well, doesn't

[Michael Sweet]

Derek J. Balling wrote:
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> Derek J. Balling wrote:
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>> Helge Blischke wrote:
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>>> Are the printers shared?
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>> Yes, and the windows users can print to them just spiffy (we tested 
>> that, just to be sure)
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> Anyone else have any other insight on this? Right now it's looking like 
> I might have to get them a dedicated network-attached printer 
> specifically to get around this, but that doesn't seem to be optimal 
> (and will only have people above me asking why linux "can't do this 
> simple thing like printing") ... ugh.

As of CUPS 1.1.22, you need an updated smbspool program which gets
the authentication information from the DEVICE_URI environment
variable instead of argv[0].  If you are using smbspool to send
jobs to a Windows server that requires authentication (something
we don't recommend - the TCP/IP Printing Service, aka LPD, is
available on Windows NT/2000/XP, works better, and doesn't require
SAMBA), then you need to get the current SAMBA release (3.0.10,
I think)

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