The first thing I tried at work, after installing Leopard today, was to add a printer, which is a Canon PCL. Usually in Tiger, I connected to it via SMB in our local windows server, like this:

smb://login:password@name _of_server/name_of_printer

But with Leopard, I just couldn’t add any shared SMB printer. No matter what I tried, only Bonjour, IP and AppleTalk printers were available to install, but not my usual Canon PCL.

Maybe you remember in Tiger: when we needed to add another printer in the Advanced tab, we held down the Option key while pressing Add, and the next screen would pop up the “Print to Windows via SMB” option. But no such trick in Leopard, it seemed.

Well, to get the Advanced tab choice, I had to customize the Add Printer toolbar: there you can add a handy Advanced button. Press that, and there you’ll find the Tiger functionality hiding!

[robg adds: To state the obvious, to reach this area, you first open the Print & Fax System Preferenes panel, then click the plus sign at the lower left corner of the window.]

via macosxhints.com – 10.5: Access advanced SMB printer setup options.