Re: [MiNT] Printer spooling

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:42:42 , Heinz Schmidt <heinz.schmidt.atari@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> > I tried that over Xmas last year ( sounds like long time ago LOL ) to my
> Win 7 system
> > It's broken... or rather Win 7 broke our version of Samba.
> > I check the Samba forums and plenty of people having issues with Win 7
> until they had a patch for it.
> > But our Samba.... no one patching it.
>
> I think since Windows 2003 & Vista (maby XP + Service Pack as well) Windows
> does no longer accept passwords beeing send unencrypted when authentication
> on a share. But our ould Samba version is not able to handle the new secure
> authentication machanism.
>
> So I guess it would work if the printer is handeled by a Windows 2000
> system. Alternatively It's possible to reconfigure Windows to accept the
> old / unsecure authentication. But this is not really a good idea.
>
> Porting a recent Samba version would be a good solution ;-)
>

I use Samba with XP for file transfers.

A more recent version would be very welcome.

Regards,

Peter