The printer name you specified at the OS X level has to be 'normalized' for CUPS: specifically, blank and hyphen characters will be changed to underscore chars. You can see what the Mac level printer names are by going into System Preferences Print & Scan, or by launching the System Information utility to there click on Printers.
Say you want to use some printers via IPP, but these require authentication with a user account. You could use this hint which was published a few days ago, and install the printer directly using an address like this: You could also do this in Tiger by holding the Option key while pressing Add. However, there are two fundamental problems with this approach. First, these printers can be used by every user on the machine, so adding printers like this only makes sense on single-user machines. Second, the account data is written to /etc/cups/printers.conf, i.e. this file contains your password in clear text (this file is only readable by administrators, though).
Mac Http Printer Hold For Authentication
Skip to page content Loading. The Mac computers store your network password information locally in what is called the 'Keychain'. When you change your network password, it is NOT automatically updated in the keychain which will cause an authentication problem when you try to print. With the IP printer, the Mac print queue displays 'Hold for Authentication' and the job does not print. Has anyone been able to make this combination work? If so, what are the steps? Dec 19, 2016 Net-Print Problem: Mac Jobs Held for Authentication User Experience I've authenticated, but the printer icon in my dock is bouncing and it says my job is 'held for authentication.' How to Solve this Problem When you.
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Fortunately, OS X 10.5 actually supports IPP printing with authentication, but Apple somehow managed to obfuscate this feature. Read on to see how to use it.
Here's how to use IPP printing with authentication:
- In case you don't already know, there is a bug in Leopard such that you absolutely have to log in with an administrative account to add printers (identification with the lock button is not enough if you work with a non-administrative account). So login as an admin first.
- Click the plus sign in the Print & Fax System Preferences panel to show the Add Printer dialog. When it appears, choose IP in the toolbar, and then select Internet Printing Protocol - IPP as the protocol. Enter the server address of your CUPS server (don't try to add any account information here), the name of the printer queue, and then add the printer.
- Now send a print job to the printer, and you will see that, well, it doesn't work, since you didn't have to specify any account information so far.
- Go back to the Print & Fax pane in System Preferences. Double-click on the printer you just send the print job to. You see now that the printer is inactive and the print job was halted -- due to missing identification.
- Continue the print job, and suddenly, an identification dialog will pop up. Why didn't it pop up earlier? Why do we have to explicitly continue the print job? Only Apple knows. But finally, you can enter your account information and also save it in your keychain.