[Bug 283811] Re: cups says "can't promp for authorization" when printing to my samba printer

[David Martín Clavo]

Hello,
I encountered this bug and managed to solve it. Here is the situation and the solution:

In Ubuntu 9.04, I was trying to add a printer connected to a Vista
Business PC in the same local network. I had turned this Vista PC on and
I had logged in with the user "Peter" (who doesn't have a password).

When going to System->Administration->Printers , I went to "New" and then "Windows Printer via Samba". I was able to find the printer without problems and the test page printed no problem.
However, next time I printed something, I got the "can't prompt for authorization" error.

I tried the copy & paste printer solution, and it let me print one more
time, but next time I got the error again.

My solution?

When adding the samba printer, after filling the smb: text field, don't
forget to go to Authentication and put "Peter" in the username field
(you should obviously write the password too if you have one).

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cups says "can't promp for authorization" when printing to my samba printer
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283811
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