We learned user authentication is the criterium that most influences whether someone chooses to configure a queue with an SMB or LPD connection.We learned a few principals regarding SMB and LPD protocol connections.The username and password Bob uses in this prompt are the domain credentials, bobsmith, known toPaperCut’s username list thanks to the server’s integration with your Active Directory domain. In this case, you can set up a print queue with an SMB connection that will prompt Bob for a username and password the first time he sends a print job to it. Bob can’t send print jobs using LPD because PaperCut doesn’t know a thing about bsmith. On the other hand, thanks to its Active Directory user/group sync config, PaperCut thinks Bob’s username is bobsmith. For example, let’s say Bob Smith’s MacBook username is bsmith. Maybe another limiting factor to using LPD connections is that people sign in to their macOS workstations with usernames unknown to PaperCut. Maybe one of the limitations of using LPD at your organization is that you can’t or won’t set up the Windows print server with the PaperCut LPD service, which is totally cool. Well, we’ll keep this simple: use SMB when you can’t use LPD. Other attributes affecting print speed are things like the driver, whether the target queue is physical or virtual, whether the document is color or simplex, the document file type, and what program someone used to print the job. Protocol choice alone does not tell the whole story in relation to print speed. Windows Servers support SMB print shares by default. Windows Servers need a little TLC to support LPD print shares. SMB requires authenticating with a username and password known to the Windows Print server either as local or domain accounts. LPD sends a print job using the macOS computer’s current log-on name without a prompt.

Submitting a print job does not require entering a username or password Support connections whether or not macOS workstations are members of the domain Support using the printer’s model-specific driver

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