samba - Jul 2009 - request for documentation improvement

Dear Samba-Team.

First, I don't know if this is the right place for my request. If a bug
report is more suitable, I can file one.

My request is interconnected with CUPS, but I was told to ask you instead as
- CUPS avoids to document software-specific stuff, because there are too
many changes in the programs interconnected with CUPS to keep up with and
the SMB backend is - as a part of Samba - separate from CUPS.
- and it's possible that third-party documentation can be integrated in
CUPS via the directory /usr/share/doc/cups/help.

So my request is to add more detailed information to the documenation. It
concerns the printing to a Windows printer via Samba which needs a
username and password for authentication.
CUPS needs the smb://servername/printername scheme to find the Samba
shared printer. This information is relatively easy to get, but it took me
hours to find out, that I have to write
smb://username:password@servername/printername to hand over a username and
password for authentication.

Maybe this information could be added to the Samba documentation.

Yours sincerely,
David H?mmerle

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM, David Robert
Haemmerle<a0800869@unet.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Dear Samba-Team.
>
> First, I don't know if this is the right place for my request. If a bug
> report is more suitable, I can file one.
>
> My request is interconnected with CUPS, but I was told to ask you instead
as
> - CUPS avoids to document software-specific stuff, because there are too
> many changes in the programs interconnected with CUPS to keep up with and
> the SMB backend is - as a part of Samba - separate from CUPS.
> - and it's possible that third-party documentation can be integrated in
> CUPS via the directory /usr/share/doc/cups/help.
>
> So my request is to add more detailed information to the documenation. It
> concerns the printing to a Windows printer via Samba which needs a
> username and password for authentication.
> CUPS needs the smb://servername/printername scheme to find the Samba
> shared printer. This information is relatively easy to get, but it took me
> hours to find out, that I have to write
> smb://username:password@servername/printername to hand over a username and
> password for authentication.
Does this help

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/CUPS-printing.html ?

>
> Maybe this information could be added to the Samba documentation.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> David H?mmerle
>
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