On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM, David Robert Haemmerle<a0800...@unet.univie.ac.at> wrote: > 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.
Does this help http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/CUPS-printing.html ? > > 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 > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
