CUPS client printjob authentication prompt

[Miquel Quiles]

I've done some more tests. I've tried Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop with GNOME and it works ok. When I send a printjob a auth-window pop-up. And also, if you right-click over a printjob in "held for authentication" status, there is a "Authenticate" option. This doesn't appear on KDE.

It seems to be a BUG (or not implementation) on the KDE Printer Applet. Does anyone know something about this?

I'm using KDE 4.2.2 and Printer Applet 1.3.



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> > > I've tried to configure the printer at the client to prompt for the
> > > user/password but it seems that's not working. The printjob stays
> > > "Held for authentication". Some of theese clients are personal
> > > computers and there is no problem, but there will be few computers
> > > in a classroom, different users will be using them.
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> > > Is there any special config to do? It's a bug?
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> > Support for non-hardcoded authenticated print queues is still shaky on
> > Linux, but Tim Waugh (Red Hat) has done a lot of good stuff in this
> > area with a GNOME printer applet that allows users to authenticate as
> > needed.
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> You may be interested in taking a look at PrintAgent : http://www.lucidsystems.org/printingworks/printagent/
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