IPP printing from Windows 2003 - requesting username containsdomain

[Seth Galitzer]

I've got clients from a Terminal Server printing to cups with samba in
the middle.  I never tried to do it "direct" via IPP.  Let samba handle
the authentication for you.  This works well for us.

Seth

Erik Forsberg wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> We're having trouble with the username sent by Windows 2003
> (Terminal Server) when printing to a CUPS server. It contains not only
> the username, but also the domain of the user. That is, instead of
> 'jsmith', we're getting 'jsmith.windows.domain', which is hard to match
> to usernames on the Linux system.
> 
> Does anyone know how to configure the windows server to send only the
> username? 
> 
> This is of course not a CUPS problem, so I hope the moderator doesn't
> get too angry. The answer is probably of interest to many CUPS
> administrators. 
> 
> Thanks,
> \EF 


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Seth Galitzer
Systems Coordinator
Computing and Information Sciences
Kansas State University
sgsax at ksu.edu
785-532-7790