Is anyone using CUPS/Kerberos from Windows client

[John A. Murdie]

> Why don't you use samba/cups to serve printing for windows clients?  You
> could then take advantage of kerberos and point'n'print auto driver
> installation...

We did precisely that when our print server was also our file server. Now that we have a new print server which does only that (file service has gone elsewhere), and we have Kerberos printing direct from Linux clients directly to it, Samba seems like an an unneccessary middleman. (It's just something else to configure, update, monitor, manage.)

Some Windows clients print by the old route (to the old print server) for the minute, but I'm just about to experiment with having them print directly to the Kerberised service. I wanted to know if anyone else out there does that, precisely how they do it - I'm not a Windows specialist - and how well it works.

Ideally, I'd also like to have a Windows Server 2003 allow its Windows desktop clients print to the same Linux-hosted CUPS service via Kerberised IPP, but I am told that it cannot export IPP printers, Kerberised or not.

John A. Murdie