Quote Originally Posted by Forester View Post
With Linux you have no such luck. This kind of automatic domain authentication is outside the scope of an OS like Linux so it is up to the individual applications and coverage varies.
I am not sure if I will buy this explanation or not. If what I said is true, that indeed Linux has a problem using (anonymously) shared printer, basically the shared printer is advertising itself, and shouting very loudly, come, come, come and use me !!! So what's the problem of using it ?

This should be analogous to anonymous http and FTP ( many of them are Unix/Linux origin ). There are so many anonymous FTP and http systems which are sharing resources on the network. Are we not alread using them ?