No Authentication Data Provided.

[Tom Allison]

I'm having a hard time getting my cups print server working again.
I'm not really sure what broke, there were upgrades on the clients and servers.

Firefox is the only thing that will print -- Thunderbird won't.
For an Apple, nothing else prints either.
Same for Linux.

Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow @LOCAL
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
DefaultAuthType Basic
<Location />
   # Allow shared printing...
   Order allow,deny
   Allow 192.168.1.*
</Location>

I've make no changes to Policy statements as I don't know what they are good for 
and I'm not finding much specifics on how to use this -- so default should do.


The following is all I see, every second for several seconds before the client 
comes back with a very generic "An Error Occurred while Printing"


D [15/Sep/2008:08:18:11 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [15/Sep/2008:08:18:11 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [15/Sep/2008:08:18:11 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes 
ipp://localhost/printers/Kyocera_FS-1010_USB_1
D [15/Sep/2008:08:18:11 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 
(successful-ok)

I'm not sure where/how/if I provide any Authentication data and in what form. 
Does this mean I have to keep a list of all the users and passwords in a cups 
directive and try to update that with all my users on the network?  I hope not, 
that's a lot of work and redundant.  What am I supposed to do with this?

Google just points out that a lot of people have the problem but with no clear 
solutions as to the problem.  Historically I've run this without much 
authentication as you would have to break in and connect to a wire for access. 
And at that point you might was well just (physically) steal the printer.