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 -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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