[Hudlug] Network printing

[Chris Lindley]

On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 17:27, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Chris - do you remember posting this:

Yup!!
> 
>  to print via CUPS to a printer on the Windows machine! 
> Now up to now this has worked perfectly. The Windows machine was running 
> Win98.  But I've upgraded to win2000 and now the bugger just does not work! 
> Now I think I know why.  Win200 wants a username and password. However I just 
> cannot work out the correct way to supply the password.  Using "smbclient -L 
> fluffy"  will browse all the shared stuff on that machine, that is after it 
> asks for a password.  So it knows my username (obviosuly cos I;m logged on as 
> that!).
> 
> Did you get it sorted?  What was the solution?

Well quite easy really!!! :-)

smb://username:password@servername/printername

You also need to uncomment the encrypt passwords option in smb.conf, and
check that your passwords are synchronised between the Linux m/c and the
Windows one.  Also update passwords using smbpasswd!

Cheers
Chris

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