[cups.general] CUPS+Samba and usernames with special characters

[Nicola Ferrari (#554252)]

On 03/02/2013 03:27 PM, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
> On Saturday 02 Mar 2013 11:07 my mailbox was graced by a message from Nicola
> Ferrari (#554252) who wrote:
>> Where could the problem be??
>
> Problem could be that in Linux user ames can only contain lowercase a through
> z, 0 through 9, and _ (underscore).
>
> Using other characters in user names (or in file names) is asking for trouble.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron.
>

Hi ron, thanks for your reply...

Do you think that there's any place where to configure a sort of "string 
substitution/user mapping" when the Windows client "give" Samba the 
username?
(so to make samba+cups believe that the user name is pinco.pallino, 
instead of pinco.pallinò)?

Thanks!
Nick

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