Cups IPP originating host attribute and samba

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Matthias Hilbig wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with the IPP originating host attribute if the print 
> jobs arrive with samba: it contains the netbios name, not necessarily a 
> valid dns name or at least a valid ip address.
> 
> I looked at the source of samba 2.2.8a and 3.0rc1, both fill the 
> job-originating-host attribute with get_remote_machine_name(). But the 
> cups backend I programmed needs to contact the originating-host, the 
> netbios name is useless for this purpose (unless I can somehow get the 
> ip address for the netbios name).
> 
> I'm not familiar with samba internals, but I think there has to be some 
> kind of function to convert a netbios name to an ip address. If somebody 
> could point this function out I could patch my samba, but overall I 
> think it would be better if samba filled in the dns name or at least the 
> ip address instead of the netbios name.

Mind filing a bug report on this?  I'll add it to the list of things to 
look at.



cheers, jerry

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