We do this all the time. I also had the problem with the user authentication on
the NT box. All our NT printers allow guest access. I discovered that setting
the smblcient user to 'GUEST' fixed the problem. Our print command on
unix look
like -
smbclient \\\\Server\\Printer -U GUEST -N -P -W OurDomain
The problem is that a know user on the NT server will have to be validated. You
can use any user id that isn't know to your NT box and you won't be
prompted for
a password. If you use a valid NT user account, the NT box will try to validate
it. GUEST is a special NT account that doesn't need a password (at least on
our
network).
>I have a situation here where I am looking at moving about 12 unix print
>queues off to one central windows nt 4.0 print queue.
>
>However if I print to a windows print queue with smbclient it asks me for
>a password which naturally is just the users windows login id.
Jeff Foster
jfoste@wgc.woodward.com