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Hello everyone,
I've been experiencing issues with SMB printing on macOS Sonoma. I previously attempted the encryption=no fix, which worked for similar problems in Monterey and Big Sur, but it doesn't seem to be effective in Sonoma.
Has anyone else encountered this problem with SMB printing on Sonoma, and if so, have you found any new solutions or workarounds? I'd greatly appreciate any insights or suggestions to resolve this issue.
I was already using the FQDN and it wasn't working for me on Sonoma. So I added ?encryption=no to the print URL and now it is! Maybe you need both under Sonoma.
Incase others don't know about the '?encryption=no' fix, below link.
SMB Printing Breaks in 12.2 - Apple Community
I was already using the FQDN and it wasn't working for me on Sonoma. So I added ?encryption=no to the print URL and now it is! Maybe you need both under Sonoma.
Incase others don't know about the '?encryption=no' fix, below link.
SMB Printing Breaks in 12.2 - Apple Community
I saw this from another user. Using the Fully Qualified Domain Name instead of an IP address.
They said.....
Anyway I managed to solve the problem moving from IP to FQDN of the Windows printserver ( SMB://printserver.domain.com/share.)
If you do, you probably would need to add an entry to your /etc/hosts file for the domain name.
Perhaps this might help you as well.
Running Sonoma on a MacBook Pro M2, no chance to get the printer working.
Using the FQDN and the "?encryption=no" and the end of the URI doesn't help for me.
I see "Unable to start job" in the printer Centre (or on the CUPS web interface).
Any other tips ?
I have worked with Sr. Support staff on SMB file sharing between an iPhone and iPad and a Mac. Authentication is broken and Apple is aware of it. When I attempt to can connect to my Mac (remote server) from the File App, I get an authentication error. This happens for a new account/user as well.
The workaround for this is to use the Guest account. You will need to give the Guest account (or the Everyone group) read & write permissions on the folders you want to to share but it works. Not sure its possible but you might try printing as a Guest?
@Randall_2023,
That worked for my organization good sir, we run Papercut for our print server so I'll be running that by them to see if they have a way to deploy it to all our clients. Guess I am curious to what changed that it couldn't communicate to our print share by IP ? Anyways...
Thanks Again
SMB Printing with the current 1st non-Beta release of Sonoma, has completely stopped SMB printing. I have spent many hours testing various configurations to get it to work with no success. Our setup requires printing from both lab computers, student laptops and staff laptops to PaperCut on a windows 2021 Server. Ventura works. I have to now switch to LPD printing as both Sonoma, and at least later versions of Ventura, allow User Authentication from the print menu. Neither Apple nor PaperCut are acknowledged this problem.
The quickest fix for me was placing ?encryption=no at the end of the URI. Details about my setup are we use Jamf Pro and Papercut. So just by adding ?encryption=no to the end of each virtual printer it allowed printing functionality again. You can just go into Jamf and edit your printers that are already there, so no need to go crazy!
The above solution worked for me temporarily but I am again at square 1, We too are running Jamf Pro and Papercut and the MacBooks we have tested on vary from Intels through M2's. Some of the admins in my department it still works for but for a majority of us the print job gets to the new "Print Center" that is when that job is in a waiting status. We have also tried the ?encryption=no but no luck, we are holding back the update for all users in the meantime until this gets resolved.
I'm in the same boat - SMB auth/Windows printing through Papercut. We already went through the PrintNightmare, have been using FQDN all along. My colleague had the 'Waiting' issue with Sonoma beta, but was able to print after a fresh reinstall of the retail. I can't reproduce the problem but have now heard of three users of Sonoma retail seeing Waiting.
We created a ticket with Support, sent logs to a tech and they got back to us stating that they're investagating an error that caught their eye "rpc_open_printer: RPC error 0x16c9a011"
However I have not used the Feedback Assistant to make a formal report.
Hiya, papercutter here. We've documented what we know here (Under: Update October 2023): https://papercut.com/support/known-issues/?id=PO-522#ng
Info on LPD here: https://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/MacOSLPDvsSMB/#LPD
Hope that helps :(
This Helps a ton ! I just had been reading up on something maybe related: the "Print Nightmare" vulnerability update, I wonder if this is similar to that ?
Edit: Yes it is regarding the Print Nightmare vulnerability.
I have managed to solve the problem by remove in keychain the password to access the printer.
Add the printer again and Connect with ?encryption=no in the end.
Exemple:
smb://printserver.domain.com/share?encryption=no
Can’t get my printers to function with recently installed Sonoma 14.0. Any solutions you might have?
Yes, this works for us too. Note, previously one of the OS broke SMB printing in the same exact nature with new OS updates and the patch released corrected the issue. This is a rendevouz.
SMB Printing Issue's MacOS Sonoma
