[TriLUG] HOWTO: Create PDFs using Samba but not CUPS

[David McDowell]

Yup, thought about that too... already tried it a couple different
ways and still nothing new.  *sigh*  I'm going to try with a Fedora
machine if I can find the time with a more recent version of samba and
see what happens.  This is driving me nuts.  :)  :)

David


On 2/28/06, Steve Hoffman <srhoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just had a thought...don't know if you've tried it or not.   Using my
> smb.conf file restart samba...then on your windows XP machine...remove the
> printer from that machine and reboot then re-add printer...I'm just thinking
> about samba and windows only sending the username once a session...well as
> far as windows is concerned it's already connected to the samba server and
> passed authentication so why bother sending again...if you get your config's
> right then basically force BOTH to re-establish connection, maybe then it
> will send username and password...AND samba should then know that
> connections from $machine use $username...more guesses, but something to
> try.
>
> This has somehow become my quest...anyone have shiny armour I can borrow
> until we solve this?
>
> Steve
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