How to recover printers on fresh install

[Genes MailLists]

On 06/01/2010 01:20 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 04:25 AM, Tim Waugh wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 21:35 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>>> That printers.conf file plus the contents of the /etc/cups/ppd directory
>>>> may be all you need to copy, but that assumes the old ppd files
>>>> and wot-not are compatible, your mileage may vary with that :-).
>>
>> Yes, that's all you need; and /etc/cups/classes.conf if you had any
>> classes defined.  Don't forget to install whichever drivers you were
>> using previously.
>>
> 
> 
>   Thank you ... very helpful.
> 
> 
> gene/
> 

  Can you tell me where the authentications are stored ? Some of my
printers authenticate to windows (via smb) and I'd like to recoever the
auth information which does not seem to be in the printers.conf file
(and is  not a part of the PPD file obviously) ?

 Thanks.

gene