IPP Client Authorization

[Laszlo Varkonyi]

When I install a printer in Windows XP, XP asks for an username and password. If the printer was installed before wanting password authentication for the CUPS server, then you can edit the port properties of the Windows client; to do this Right click in Printers folder, select "Server Properties" then choose the Ports tab, select the port which name starts with "http://" and ends with your printer's name, and choose Configure...  It pops up a window where you can specify username and password.

For linux clients: you can use url-s in this form:
http://username:password@cups.server.name:631/printers/yourprintername

For faulty windows clients i posted a message asking for help, but i'm making a solution too, check out the thread named "IPP printing problems on some Windows XP clients" (in cups.general)

Good luck!!!

> Hi All,
>
> We have a IPP server configured to require Basic or Digest authorization to print our printers.
>
> e.g. if you go to http://ippserver/printers/Test8150/.printer in a web browser it prompts you for a user name and password with the regular browser username/password dialog box.
>
> How can we configure our clients to pass a username/password to print to this IPP server?  I configured the printer as I normally would but when trying to print to it we get the following error message: "Unable to get printer status (client-error-not-authorized)!"
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide!
> Mark