I have this problem too, with a printer that does require authentication (attached to a remote windows machine on the network). The username and password are entered already in the printers.conf file, so no prompt should be needed; but I still get the dialog box saying "Can't prompt ... Printing Failed". The problem (as above) seems to be an incorrectly added line "AuthInfoRequired..."
Here is the relevant snippet from /etc/cups/printers.conf in intrepid: <Printer Canon> AuthInfoRequired username,password Info Canon_inkjet_on_home_network Location DeviceURI smb://SomeUser:TopSecretPassword@/server/Canon-i950 State Idle StateTime 1227476815 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy retry-job </Printer> The corresponding snippet in gutsy was essentially the same, except that the "AuthInfoRequired" line was absent. Commenting out the AuthInfoRequired line makes the printing work again. -- cups says "can't promp for authorization" when printing to my samba printer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283811 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
