10.3: Update URIs for Samba printing to Windows

Nov 16, '03 12:25:00AM

Contributed by: toddmcq

I use OS X to print to a Windows domain. Once I installed Panther, all my CUPS printers stopped working (this was an upgrade install of Panther over Jaguar). Turns out the required format of the URI for the printer is slightly altered in Panther:

Jaguar: smb://username:password@domain/server/printername
Panther: smb://username:password@server.domain/printername

For some reason, those two URI's are not interchangeable. Please note I have this machine bound to the domain, which may or may not make a difference. Hope this helps!

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