cups printing to Windows IPP Server

Carlos Augusto carlos at hsms.com.br
Thu Mar 30 19:57:34 PST 2006


> Jakub Troszok wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Thank you for your previous answers.
> >
> > Now I would like to print using CUPS on printers that are
> > attached to Windows machines.
> >
> > I've got Windows 2000 Server with IIS and IPP but the
> > problem is that everytime I want to print something I
> > got client-not-authorized error.
> >
> > I cannot configure my cups client applications to connect
> > to windows server. I changed the .cupsrc and exported
> > IPP_PORT variable but it doesn't work.
> > For example the KDE KPrint asks me about the username
> > and passwords but I got error anyway.
> > Is authentication not supported by CUPS or is it
> > problem of KDEPrint ?
> >
> > I cannot configure a printer on cups server to connect
> > to windows server using the credentials.
> > I suppose it could be done
> > by changing the configuration file, but I don't want to
> > let/force users running their OpenOffice/KWord on my
> > linux box to change the CUPS config.
> >
> > Do you plan to port CUPS also on Windows ?
> > The home versions of Windows are not able
> > to share their printers using the IPP protocol
> > so it would be nice if we could use CUPS both
> > on Linux/Unix and Windows platforms.
> >
>
> According to Microsoft KB 323428 (ws2003) or 313058 (w2k)
> Windows uses following authentication methods:
> 1. anonymous access
> 2. "Integrated Windows authentication" aka NTLM
> 3. Digest authentication for domain servers
> 4. basic authentication with password as clear text
> 5. Microsoft .NET Passport authentication
>
> I believe only 1 and 4 is working with CUPS.
> A further method is "IP Address and Domain Restriction".
> This should work, too.
>

Use LPD with SERVICE FOR UNIX . IT´S WORK´S WELL.





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