[cups.general] Kerberos printing to SMB printers

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, John Hodrien wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, John Hodrien wrote:
>
>> Now on a machine where the cups server is on the same machine as the client,
>> things look healthier as long as I ignore kerberos to cups.  The setuid then
>> makes sense, and the username comes through right.  I'm still not getting a
>> printout, despite it working if I do a manual smbspool, but that's nearly
>> right.
>
> Okay, so that's me being caught out by a default 755 backend resulting in it
> running as lp, which doesn't have access to the credentials.  0700 on
> /usr/bin/smbspool gives me a locally correct behaviour.

Which I guess then explains the problem I had once I'd fixed Kerberos.  Goodo.
Sorry for the rambling noise, hopefully it'll be useful for the next idiot
that gets stuck with this.

jh

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