Re: Does cups support spaces in group names?

daniel dot jarboe at custserv dot com wrote:

> cups-1.1.17.  Is there some special delimeter to enable cups to handle
> group names with spaces in it?

I remember to have had success with *printernames* containing spaces, by
escaping the blank with a backslash:

   printer\ name\ with\ spaces

This even worked with Samba and Windows clients.

However, I believe this will not work with *usernames*. Just try it
in smb.conf (also try 'user name, "user name" and user%20name...)

Then run "testparm" and see how Samba interprets the name. I remember to 
have experimented with this also some time ago, but didn't follow it through.
At the time it was Samba-3.0alpha24. I don't know about the current version
(3.0 released, yayyy!), and I have no Samba box at hand.

Chances are that testparm (and therefor Samba) will list your different names 
with comma-separated and not blank-separated....


> For example, when using winbind (windows
> domain authentication), there are often groups with spaces.  Problem
> is,
> in cupsd.conf when I specify SystemGroup, it only takes the first space
> delimited word after the =.
> 
> For example:
> Specified  | Interpreted as
> -------------------------
> "Print Admins" | "Print
> Print Admins   | Print
> 
> Are there any workarounds, or do I need to ask our domain administrators
> to change stuff?
> 
> Thanks,
> ~ Daniel