Guest user for printing

[computerfixitguy]

I don't get it.  Is there any way to enable a guest user (no authentication of any kind) for a printer?   I cannot use blank passwords at all so what can I do?

Thanks,

Derek

[javi]

Nope sorry, you must use a user/password. This is a feature on our TODO list

[kerridge0]

Hi

Is there any update/Can anyone think of a workaround for this?

actually want a guest share for vpn users who are studying and need to access an audio stream from a windows share from their home PC- would love to allow anonymous read-only access...

[Chris]

You could always modify your smb.conf file by hand.  Here is an example read-only share:

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[share_name]
comment = Share_comment
security = share
public = yes
force user = nobody
force group = nogroup
inherit acls = No
path = /path/to/share
read only = Yes
To give write access, just set read only to No.  I haven't tested it with eBox, but I had a server that used a similar share.
I assume a similar thing could be done with printers by modifying the [printers] or [print$] sections of smb.conf, but I don't know for sure.
Good luck!

[kerridge0]

thanks, will try it, and document what i did here...