forwarding credentials question

[joel]

Actually... we got it working. It was a simple problem with the printer.conf file... it took a special character '%' in my password and turned it into a "%25".

Thx.

> joel wrote:
> > ...
> > So basically, it's up to me to do some research and see if I can
> > figure this all out. I'll continue reading these forums (i've already
> > checked out some threads on CUPS), and google etc... but does anyone
> > know if it's possible for me to forward my credentials, so that I can
> > print on the network here in our dept?
>  > ...
>
> OK, *today* our recommendation is to not use SMB for remote printing,
> but instead to use LPD or IPP when printing to a Windows server.  LPD
> is trivial to setup (add the "TCP/IP Printing" service from the
> Services control panel), and IPP isn't too bad if you already have
> IIS installed and running.
>
> If you must use smb, currently you must also pass a username and
> password as part of the device URI for the queue, e.g.:
>
>      smb://user:pass@workgroup/server/share
>
> CUPS 1.3 adds support for better proxy authentication (you can pass
> in foreign authentication information when you print) and for Kerberos
> authentication (Active Directory in MS-speak).  The Kerberos support
> is transparent as long as you also use AD/LDAP accounts on your
> Fedora system.  The foreign authentication support will need some
> additional help from the Linux desktop folks, since they need to
> respond to the auth-info-required message that CUPS returns and
> re-submit the job with the additional username, password, and (if
> needed) domain.
>
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> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
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