[cups.bugs] Error: Tree connect failed (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)

[Michael Sweet]

On Sep 16, 2009, at 5:39 PM, David Kimpton wrote:

>
> Problem: At our college Macs can't print to HP P2014n printers
>
> (1) We are running a mixed environment but the Macs that can't print
> are running Darwin, Leopard OSX 10.5.7 and CUPS 1.3.10

Any reason you aren't running 10.5.8 + the current security update?

> (2) How do I get upgrade instructions to CUPS 1.4 on the Mac?

The INSTALL.txt file is a starting point, but...

> (3) I am a newbie so is their unix command step by step how to do  
> the upgrade somewhere from CUPS 1.3.10 to 1.4 ?

see above, but...

> (4) Will the upgrade in (3) fix our Tree connect failed  
> (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)

No, since that is a Samba problem, not a CUPS problem.

> (5) Also print jobs go On Hold Authentication required even as  
> root ???

Right, because the print jobs are printed from the lp account, not root.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer