I wrote: > printer stops working because the user and password information has > been stripped from the Samba URL: instead of > smb://user:pass/host/share, the URL has become just > smb://host/share.
Please ignore what I wrote after the colon above. I was temporarily confused about this detail. The correct form for the smb URL type is smb://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/share. When this URL is reported on the manage-printers web page, the "user:pass@" part is never included, presumably by design. I wish to correct just this mistaken detail in my report: the problem I describe is not a result of my reporting error, it's real: under certain mysterious conditions, cupsys is losing the user:pass information. My evidence is that a printer that was working fine begins to show the following text on the manage-printers page: "Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...ERROR: Connection failed with error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED". I can verify this error message in the samba logs. I can correct it -- at least until it happens again -- by selecting "modify printer" and retyping the URL. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
