How to allow CUPS printing when no authentication data is sent?

john reidenbach jreidenbach at dchsystem.com
Wed Oct 7 11:11:08 PDT 2009


Hello, I'm new to Linux and new to CUPS.

I've got a challenge for a CUPS expert if you know one.

Trying to configure an anonymous print server.

I have configured Linux and Samba to allow any Windows PC to connect and print.

However, the main point of this server is to print from another UNIX based server.  The OS on that server is actually called MAGIC.  Anyway, when MAGIC sends a print job, it does not seem to be including any authentication information.  Confusing CUPS.

>From the CUPS web manager, when sending a job from MAGIC, I do not see a print job appear in CUPS.

Is it possible to have an anonymous access CUPS print server?  I have included a piece of my CUPS error log below:



D [07/Oct/2009:09:20:11 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 19 POST /printers/test HTTP/1.1
D [07/Oct/2009:09:20:11 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [07/Oct/2009:09:20:11 -0500] Get-Job-Attributes ipp://localhost/jobs/13
D [07/Oct/2009:09:20:11 -0500] Get-Job-Attributes client-error-not-found: Job #13 does not exist!
D [07/Oct/2009:09:20:11 -0500] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 19 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)
D [07/Oct/2009:09:20:16 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 19 POST /printers/test HTTP/1.1
D [07/Oct/2009:09:20:16 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [07/Oct/2009:09:20:16 -0500] Get-Job-Attributes ipp://localhost/jobs/19
D [07/Oct/2009:09:20:16 -0500] Get-Job-Attributes client-error-not-found: Job #19 does not exist!
D [07/Oct/2009:09:20:16 -0500] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 19 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)





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