Dear Samba-Team. First, I don't know if this is the right place for my request. If a bug report is more suitable, I can file one.
My request is interconnected with CUPS, but I was told to ask you instead as - CUPS avoids to document software-specific stuff, because there are too many changes in the programs interconnected with CUPS to keep up with and the SMB backend is - as a part of Samba - separate from CUPS. - and it's possible that third-party documentation can be integrated in CUPS via the directory /usr/share/doc/cups/help. So my request is to add more detailed information to the documenation. It concerns the printing to a Windows printer via Samba which needs a username and password for authentication. CUPS needs the smb://servername/printername scheme to find the Samba shared printer. This information is relatively easy to get, but it took me hours to find out, that I have to write smb://username:passw...@servername/printername to hand over a username and password for authentication. Maybe this information could be added to the Samba documentation. Yours sincerely, David Hämmerle -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba