[Hudlug] Network printing

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 6:23 pm, Chris Lindley wrote:
> 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 runn=
ing
> > 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=
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> > 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 userna=
me
> > (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, an=
d
> check that your passwords are synchronised between the Linux m/c and th=
e
> Windows one.  Also update passwords using smbpasswd!
>
Thanks - I have samba working fine for browsing, but haven't tried printi=
ng to=20
and from the one w2k box on the lan.

Anne
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