Encrypted Printing from Solaris to Windows

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Jul 13 05:05:22 PDT 2004


Andreas Pape wrote:
> ...
> Thanks. Since Windows 2000/IIS/IPP-Printers require Windows
> authentication: How do I configure CUPS to authenticate? (I did not
> find anything in the docs.)

Use:

     ipp://username:password@server/printers/name/.printer?encryption=always

Yes, you need to hardcode the username and password, which sucks,
however there is no way at present to securely pass the local user
credentials/authentication information from client to server to
remote server.

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