setting up cups smb printers for multiple users

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Wed Sep 20 08:45:09 PDT 2006


Dan K. wrote:
> Is there a way to setup a cups smb printer for multiple users?
> 
> I have dozens of users login to some "public" machines, and when setting up printers, it wants one user name.  Is there some way of using the current user logged in as the username for the smb printer?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan

See the description of smb.conf, especially look for "map user" and "force user" keywords. It may be
that these do what you want.

Helge


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