Showing posts with label mac printing windows kerberos samba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mac printing windows kerberos samba. Show all posts

Friday, May 30, 2008

Printing on Leopard over a Windows Network

Anybody at a small company with a Mac has faced this nightmare: all the printers are on a domain controlled Windows Server and its incredibly impossible to print on them!

Seems like 'Kerberos Printing from OS X to Windows Active Directory Printer Share' is the solution.

Use CUPS to add a printer and select 

2. Add Printer -> Enter Name / Location / Description
3. Select Device as "Windows Printer via SAMBA with kerberos support" 
4. Enter "ksmb://username:passwd@printserver/PrinterName"
5. Finish it up!

Oh, by the way entering your password like that will place it in direct text form in /etc/cups/printers.conf. Normally printers.conf has user read-write permissions only. So you should be safe from other users on the machine or on the network. But if you let someone use your login for a few minutes (while you are away) - then you are in TROUBLE! They can read your login password in plain text in less than 3 seconds. So be careful!