[cups.general] Does 1.2.0 still use passwd in URI for smb printers?

wtautz wtautz at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Mon May 15 12:27:37 PDT 2006


Michael Sweet wrote:

> wtautz wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it true that smb printing requires explicit entry of userid and
>> clear-text password in the uri? Has this changed in 1.2.0? I haven't
>> actually tried this. Just some of my colleagues have mentioned this
>> in the past as a result I may have phrased this incorrectly or worse
>> misunderstood the issue.
>
>
> This is still the case, although CUPS 1.2 now offers a way for the
> Samba smbspool program (which is the smb backend) to indicate that
> it needs a password so that CUPS can add it with the information from
> the user session that initiated the print job.  However, you'll need
> to ask the Samba folks to add this code...
>
Is there a known patch that can be applied to specific version of Samba
to effect this change?

Walter





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