Cups Troubles

[Tod Thomas]

Tod Thomas wrote:
> I am trying to print from FC4 client to WinXP workstation with a share 
> defined to an Epson Stylus Photo RX600 printer.  I am trying to connect 
> with a user account defined on the XP box.
> 
> In the CUPs web GUI when it comes time to configure the Device URI I'm 
> specifying smb://user:password/ipaddress/sharename.  This should work, 
> in fact I have validated the connectivity to the XP box with smbclient. 
>  The problem is I have special characters in the password, particularly 
> the '@' symbol.  I have a feeling that is throwing CUPs off.  I tried 
> making the change directly to printers.conf but that didn't make a 
> difference.


Make that: smb://user:password@ipaddress/sharename


> Can anybody provide a sample, maybe I am typing it wrong in the 
> printers.conf file?  Any hints would be appreciated.  I'm using cups 
> v1.1.23 which came with my initial FC4 installation.
> 
> 
> Thanks - Tod
>