Never mind folks, I was able to get things working on my own (finally!)
.. what I needed to do was to use the format:
smb://:@//
and all was well .. not the most secure way to do printing in the
domain, but at least it's working .. unless someone can suggest another
way of doing the same thing .
I am having trouble printing from my Mandrake 8.2 laptop using CUPS
1.1.14 and samba 2.2.3a .. Our domain printers are managed by some
printer accounting software that will not allow anyone outside of the
domain to print to our printers. I was able to successfully add my
Linux box to our domain,