Problem with NTLM printing to Windows erver

[Anonymous]

I have successfully used curl to POST with Kerberos and NTLM to an IIS print server. It is realistic to suggest to use curl in the cups project to get support for these authentications ?

> Frank wrote:
> > I am looking for the correct way to print to a Windows server with
> > IPP using NTLM/DIGEST authentication. I know Kerberos is not
> > supported yet.
> >
> > Browsing through the code of backend/ipp.c and http_send() i don't
> > see any authentication logic except SSL but perhaps i lost track in
> > the source ?
>
> The current authentication code can be found in cups/auth.c.
>
> Right now, we support Basic, Digest, and Local authentication.
>
> "Basic" and "Digest" are the standard auth mechanisms from RFC 2617.
>
> "Local" is a CUPSism and refers to locally-generated authentication
> certificates.  As its name implies, it only works over local
> connections (localhost in CUPS 1.1.x, plus domain sockets and ::1
> in CUPS 1.2.x) and requires that you have access to one of the
> certificate files in /etc/cups/certs (CUPS 1.1.x) or
> /var/run/cups/certs (CUPS 1.2.x).
>
> We have plans (after CUPS 1.2 is released) to add Kerberos support
> via GSSAPI.  If you can come up with the code to support NTLM/DIGEST
> in the cupsDoAuthentication() function, feel free to provide a patch
> at:
>
>      http://www.cups.org/str.php
>
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