Bug 202977

Description of problem:

When trying to print using cups to windows Print share (Password Protected),
backend smb fails with following message

backend smb failed.

ERROR: Tree connect failed (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)
ERROR: Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds...

Password security is implemented at our side and we must use special characters
in the password. The password contains "#" at the end. For e.g. test123#

Here is the DeviceURI Line in printers.conf file.

DeviceURI smb://test:test123#@domain/printserver/printer

Insted of using smb linked to smbspool i created a shell script to display
DEVICE_URI and found that

CUPS is truncating the DEVICE_URI after # 

it shows
smb://test:test123

I have tried to use Hex character %23 for # however in that case samba can not
authenicate against windows printer share.

DeviceURI smb://test:test123%23@domain/printserver/printer

So to summarize the issue here is
1. Use of password protected Windows Print Share
2. Use of special characters # in the password
3. Use Samba
4. cups will truncate DeviceURI and only conains string before #. (printing
fails). Escaping it with \# also does not work.
5. if used %23 instead of #, samba will not authenticate against Printer share.

in either case printing will not work.

Only workaround is to write shell script and explicitly export DEVICE_URI
environment variable  and name it as smb.

export DEVICE_URI=smb://test:test123%23@domain/printserver/printer
smbpool $1 $2 $3 $4 \"$5\"


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cups-1.2.2-11
samba-3.0.23b-2



How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure CUPS to connect to Windows network printer share with password
containing # at the end.
2. Try printing to it using echo test | lp -d printername
3. check for error log in /var/log/cups/error_log
  
Actual results:
No print output

Expected results:
print output

Additional info: