[cups.general] Printing to SMB shares on Win from Mac

[Michael R Sweet]

val wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here is my situation:
> 
> On MAC:tiger, using SMB shares to my printers on a server, the system worked flawlessly. No questions, etc.
> 
> On MAC:leopard, using the exact same shares, MAC prompts me for a username and password (besides what was in the SMB share path).
> 
> I know that this seems more like a MAC OS problem, but With the new version of OS X came a new version of Cups.

This is a new feature in Leopard.  Basically, before we just hard-
coded the username and password in the device URI.  Now we actually
ask the current user for their credentials.

> Does anyone know a solution to turning off the authentication when printing or know if this is a CUPS/samba matter or OS X?

Enable the guest account on your Windows system, or don't use SMB.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer