How to set user or file name on printing ...

Jim Farrell jwf at platinum.com
Tue May 19 18:34:57 GMT 1998


I run samba on Solaris with encrypted passwords ...  however I get people
occasionally visiting my location who need to get to certain basic
services like printing without having a user/account/password set up for
them. 

A while ago I asked this list if there was some way to configure my server
so that the printers didn't require any username/password to do printing
.... nobody responded, and there didn't seem to be a way to make "guest
only" in the config export "anonymous" resources like printing.  If anyone
can answer that question I'd appreciate it. 

Ok, so I just installed another samba server operating without encrypted
passwords, and re-exported the network printers to accept any 
userid/password and so now I have a server dedicated to "anonymous" guest 
services.

However now, the banner pages (from the new server) all say
"server!nobody"  (that is unix user id 'nobody' on the machine 'server')
and I was wondering if there was any way I could force the Solaris lp
system to somehow take the user ID samba gets from the client and print
that on the banner page instead.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-- jim



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