[cups.bugs] CUPS and Samba authentication

[Michael R Sweet]

This isn't a CUPS bug, it is a desktop bug where the toolkits being used do not pay attention to the auth-info-required attribute for the selected printer. CUPS has no way to ask for this information directly.

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On Nov 14, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Alberto <ferrante at alari.ch> wrote:

> Hi,
> there seems to be a long standing bug in CUPS (at least since 1.4). At the moment I am using CUPS 1.5 on Fedora 16 64 bit. I have configured CUPS to use a Windows printer through Samba. When the option "prompt user if authentication is required" no authentication is shown when the user tries to print (except in Firefox/Thunderbird) and the job is held for authentication. By entering the Windows username and password in the configuration dialog all works fine, but this is not a viable option in configurations in which multiple users share the same set of PCs.
> 
> Regards,
>    Alberto Ferrante
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