[aklug] Re: Ubuntu 8.04: printing with default SMB printing tool

Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:

> Hello. I may have mentioned this earlier, but I've been to trying to
> get a Linux box running Ubuntu 8.04 (the one joined to AD) to print to a
> Windows network printer. I did get it working, but there is one issue
> I'm trying to work out. I was hoping one of the Ubuntu fans on this
> list might be able to help me.
> When setting up a connection to an SMB printer, Ubuntu requires a valid
> domain account and password to be entered at set up. This account and
> password is apparently reused by the system each time any user tries to
> print to the SMB printer.
>
> This was not a problem at first, because I just provided my own user
> name and password, and things seemed to work great. However, a few days
> later I changed my domain password (as I do regularly), and the Ubuntu
> machine was no longer able to printer to our SMB printers. Apparently
> Ubuntu continues to try and use the old password.
>
> I could make a request to management for a permanent,
> linux-printing-only account that does not have a changing password. But
> the first thing they would ask me is: "Why? None of the Windows and Macs
> need that." And then they would say "We'll think about it..." and
> probably put it off for three months. :(
>
> Would anyone know of some way I could change the configuration so that
> Ubuntu simply uses the credentials of the domain user who is logged in
> and trying to print? Or perhaps, it could simply ask the user who is
> logged in to provide a user name and password?
>

Hi Chris,

Did you connect your samba server with the username and password files =20
for the AD? What do you get when you use wbinfo -u and getent passwd?

Jon

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Received on Fri Aug 1 09:03:09 2008