On Saturday 01 August 2009 23:05:07 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
>> >> I am trying to print the CUPS Print Test Page from my laptop
>> >> on a printer attached to another machine on my home LAN.
>> >> But whenever I do this CUPS adds the line
>> >> "AuthInfoRequired username,password" to
/etc/cups/printers.conf
>> >> on my laptop.
>> >> The result is that the job is rejected;
>
> I've never done this, so I'm just throwing out ideas for you to consider.
> You
> are connecting to alfred in order to print. If you set up printers in
> samba you have to set whether the driver is going to be local or remote -
> how do you do that in the cups setup?
Thanks again for your response.
When setting up the printer on the laptop,
I say that it is a network printer, choose http as the protocol,
and give the URI of the printer, in this case
http://192.168.2.1:631/printers/HP_LaserJet_5L .
(The printer is never found by clicking on Network Find Printer.)
That's a bit worrying. I guess it means that it's not broadcasting as
shared
- which would fit with the error message.
> The other thing that comes to mind is that because it is
attached to
> alfred,
> you definitely have to authenticate there. You'd need either matching
> username and password or user-mapping, I would have thought.
There is no suggestion that one has to setup anything,
and I don't see where one could set username/password
in any of the CUPS files.
> Hope it starts off some useful train o thought.
Yes, thanks.
I'll try setting up some form of authentication,
or else try turning it off.
But when I googled for the error message,
none of those who encountered the problem
seemed to have found any simple solution.
One thing you could try - set up keychain authentication with keys. I've only
used it in an ssh situation, but I believe it can work in lots of others. You
give the keychain password at the start of a session and that is checked
against known-hosts on the remote machine. That's certainly worth a try.
Anne
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