[cups.general] Printing from Tiger
David Schlenk
david-schlenk at bethel.edu
Thu May 19 14:06:32 PDT 2005
I've asked this on the Apple Printing forum, but haven't had much luck
there.
For as long as OS X has existed we have been forced to use netatalk to
share printers because there wasn't a good way to have users print in
any authenticated manner that didn't involve storing their
username/password in the /etc/cups/printers.conf file (which
consequently, besides being really bad security-wise, lets anyone else
with an account on that machine print as the person who set up that
printer).
Apple was promising something called "secure authenticated printing to
shared printers" in Tiger, which I was led to believe was actually
authenticated IPP printing, which is what I've really wanted our
environment to move to for years, but haven't been able to for lack of
good support (or support at all) by the major client OSes.
So I got myself a copy of Tiger to test this out, and I can't get it to
work. I can see the printers that my CUPS server is broadcasting on
our network and add them properly. And when I try to print to one of
them, it even asks for my username and password, and when entered it
doesn't store it anywhere that I can find, which is nice, but jobs
don't print the queue just displays a "client-error-not-authorized"
error.
I tried fiddling with various authentication settings in the /printers
Location directive, and the only thing that works is just allowing the
Tiger machine's IP outright, which at that point satisfies my "satisfy
any" option and thereby doesn't even try to do the user based
authentication.
I'm using Basic authentication, but I've also tried using Digest which
didn't work either.
My question is if there is anyone in CUPS land that might have an idea
what exactly the Tiger version of CUPS is expecting on the server-side,
and if anyone has successfully accomplished what I'm trying to do.
--
David Schlenk
Operating Systems Analyst
Bethel University
Saint Paul, Minnesota
david-schlenk at bethel.edu
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