[cups] CUPS won't send my user name to the printer

[Joel Lord]

Ian -

I admit I wasn't paying full attention to your previous post, so I'm 
starting with the obvious question.  What version of CUPS are you 
running?  There was a bug in CUPS in some circumstances it would not 
send authentication to network printers, that was just fixed in 2.2.8.

- Joel

On 9/9/2018 10:00 PM, マスターズ　イアン wrote:
> Hi again folks
>
> As I previously mentioned in a previous post, I don't have administrative access to the Fuji Xerox I want to print to from my CentOS7 virtual machine, but I got someone to print out the printer's log files for me.
>
> It shows that the jobs I'm sending are not accompanied by my user name, which is required, so the printer is throwing the jobs away.
>
> Looking at the CUPS access log, for any job sent to the printer, the username is not present in the 3rd column of the log.
>
> So now I need to try to make sure that CUPS sends the username, otherwise the printer will not print my job.
>
> These are the things I've tried so far:
>
> 1. I made an account on the CentOS VM with the same 4 digit username which is authorised to print to the printer.
>
> 2. Using the required fxlputil utility, setting the job type to 'Secure Print' and user ID to my username (my 4 digit number).
>
> 3. In /etc/cups/client.conf:
> User <username>
>
> 4. In /etc/cups/printers.conf
> DeviceURI lpd://<username>:@<printer IP>
> Option job-originating-user-name <username>
>
> 5. From command line:
> lp -U <username> -d <CUPS printer name> <filename>
>
> What else can I try?
>
> Thanks
>
> ian