DeviceURI and password with '#' character

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Aug 28 06:17:36 PDT 2006


Benjamin Delagoutte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experiencing problems while printing on a windows shared printer. In my printers.conf file, I wrote this line :
> 
> DeviceURI smb://login:password@host/printer
> 
> By the way, the password contains a '#' (sharp) character, that make the rest of the line to be read as a comment (and this way ignored).
> 
> I tried with no success to escape the '#' with urlencoded value ('%23'), or with a backslash ('\'). I even tried to write the URI inside quotes or double-quotes.
> 
> What can I do, now ?

You have to escape the # with %23, however the smbspool program
doesn't support percent escapes... :(  Please contact the Samba
folks and report the bug so that it gets fixed...

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