Setting SMB printer using Kerberos?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Michael Sweet wrote:
> Alex wrote:
>> When setting up a SMB printer in CUPS, it usually take the forms
>>
>> smb://username:password@server/printer,
>>
>> Is it possible to omit the username:password and instruct CUPS to use
>> kerberos authentication(which had been set up via login) each time a
>> print job is submitted?
> 
> With CUPS 1.3 and the current Kerberos and Samba releases, yes.
> 

Also, there is the binary "kerberizing" wrapper around smbspool that
was written by Jeremy Alison some time ago. It runs smbspool with the
original calling UID.

This should work even with *older* versions of CUPS too.

In SUSE, the package name is "samba-krb-printing".


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