[cups.general] printer is idle....but NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

[Helge Blischke]

Luca Ferrari wrote:
> 
> Helge Blischke's cat, on 07/07/2005 14.16, walking on the keyboard wrote:
> > To specify a valid username - password pair in the printer's device URI is the easier way, I
> > think.
> 
> What URI are we talking about? In the printers.conf file I've got
> smb://guest@machine/server, and in fact I can print, but I cannot check
> the printer. If I try to specify the URI to the lpstat command I get a
> syntax error. So what is the URI I must specify the username in?
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
> 
You need to specify the user name and password in the URI in your printers conf.
See the smbspool manpage for the syntactic details.

Helge

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