CUPS help

[Dan Coutu]

Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I have started playing around with CUPS (finally). I have one small
>question about (who wouold have guessed it), Windows clinets. I can
>point them to http://server:631/printers/foo and everything works fine.
>The problem starts when I enable basic authentication on the CUPS
>server. I can add authentication to an existing printer on the Windows
>side, but I can't install a new printer because access is denied. Does
>anyone know how to specify the username and password as part of the
>ipp/http URL?
>
>TIA,
>Kenny
>  
>
Well first the direct answer to your last question about username and 
password in the URL. Do this:

http://username:password@hostname.domain/path/file

I'd assume that the ipp syntax would be the same.

Secondly, you may find it easier to setup Samba to deal with the printer 
installation because it can
be setup so that when a Windows system adds the shared printer the 
proper printer drivers can be
downloaded to the Windows system. Pretty cool trick.

Dan