[cups] Windows printing from CUPS on Mac

Douglas Kosovic doug at uq.edu.au
Thu Oct 22 23:41:37 PDT 2015


Hi,

> On Friday, 23 October 2015 5:19 AM Michael Sweet wrote:
> > On Oct 22, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Brian Corbin  wrote:
> > 
> > 1.  Can windows clients print to CUPS on a Mac?
> Yes, with some caveats about drivers and Windows' complete lack of support for authenticated IPP queues.

Actually Windows does support authenticated IPP queues, but is a bit of a kludge.

For Win7 SP1 or Win2008 R2, install the KB2616471 IPP hotfix that fixes authentication to non-Windows IPP print servers :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2616471

For Win 8.1, it's fixed in one of the Windows updates.

Win 10 seems to support authenticated IPP out of the box.

And what I mean by kludge, you are not prompted for the credentials, so need to go to the printer properties "Port" tab, click "Configure Port" and ensure "use the specified user account" is selected and username and password is filled in.


Cheers,
Doug



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