cups-lpd issue driving me nuts.

[Michael Sweet]

RW Boyer wrote:
> This should be extremely simple but I am having some sort of dumb attack.
> 
> I am running OS X 10.5 and need to share a printer with an ancient version of SCO openserver 5 - cups-lpd seems to be configured and accepting the job but...
> 
> cups is failing to actually print the job the log is:
> 
> E [05/May/2009:23:10:20 -0400] Create-Job: Unauthorized
> E [05/May/2009:23:10:20 -0400] Invalid peer credentials for "_lp" - got 2, expected 26!
> E [05/May/2009:23:10:20 -0400] Create-Job: Unauthorized
> E [05/May/2009:23:10:20 -0400] Invalid peer credentials for "_lp" - got 2, expected 26!
> E [05/May/2009:23:10:20 -0400] Create-Job: Unauthorized
> E [05/May/2009:23:10:20 -0400] Invalid peer credentials for "_lp" - got 2, expected 26!
> E [05/May/2009:23:10:20 -0400] Create-Job: Unauthorized
> 
> There does not appear to be any restrictions that I can see in the default cups configuration file. Any help getting this working would be greatly appreciated.

Have you changed the CUPS configuration to require authentication?

(the peer credentials error is a known issue, but no fix is available)

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