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I am trying to print to a samba printer via CUPS. I have configured the printer allright, but there seems to be a problem with authentication. The error message I get is

Session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

The GUI also tells me: Idle - Tree connect failed (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)

It used to work with previous versions of CUPS (1.4.3 and 1.4.6) under Ubuntu 11.04

I am doing this on a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04, CUPS version 1.5.3. I have tried changing some rights relating to apparmor, with no success as described here: http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2010/01/16/fixing-usrlibcupsbackendsmb-failed-error-in-ubuntu/

I have been working with Ubuntu for years - but this is the kind of problem I need help with.

Aaron
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Hurrah, its working. The problem is related to a really strange authentication issue that 12.04 has with samba. As I also had problems connecting to the samba drives, I read that server and domain names need to be in uppercase (I have no clue why) to make them work.

For the samba printer, it was enough to just have the domain name uppercase, such as this:

smb://D.EXAMPLE.CH/vpp-xxxxxxxxxxxxx/vpp-xxxxxxxxxxxx

take care to unlock caps lock before entering the password :-)

I hope this saves someone time.

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Julius
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Solution for Ubuntu 14.04.

  1. Go to Terminal and run:

     sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

  2. There change:

    workgroup = YOURDOMAIN

  3. Test syntax is ok by typing in terminal: 

    testparm

  4. On system settings -> printer -> properties, set the authentication details as follows:

    Username youruser@domain.com
Password yourpass
VERIFY

  5. Print test page

That should do it

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I had the same problem, although on a debian machine where the Windows host is connected to the domain but the Debian client is not. The solution that worked for me was as follows:

  1. Change the domain setting as suggested by Miguel above.
  2. Test for access to the printer using this command:
smbclient -L {Server_IP} -U {ad.domain.name.com}/{domain_username}
  1. Fire up the add printers dialog in Gnome, select Windows Printer via Samba
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