[cups.general] smb authentication for domain users

[Tim Waugh]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:39 -0700, Christopher wrote:
> Ubuntu has built in tools for adding smb printers.  The problem is
> that it uses a global user name and password to authenticate,
> regardless of who is doing the printing.  I have to provide the user
> name and password when I set up the printer, and it is stored in the
> smb URL in 'printers.conf'.

Work is underway to fix this.  See the second screenshot on this page,
In particular, the 'Prompt user if authentication is required':
  http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/05/29/version-100/

Also this page (which talks about me having submitted a patch to samba
-- in fact Michael Sweet beat me to it):
  http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/04/17/proxy-authentication/

Unfortunately there is still a bug in samba that prevents this from
working unless you have Kerberos:
  https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5675

There seems to be an approved patch for that now so hopefully per-user
authentication for SMB queues will be possible soon.

Tim.
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