Windows Network Printing Connection Timeouts - Lion Specific

It worked for me here. I just deleted all password in the keychain and reinstall printer then Bingo! Thanks for all your suggestion.

Hi all,

Would just like to say LeoNogueira solution worked for me.

Everything worked fine for me before upgrading to Lion. Trying unistalling printers, updating drivers locally on my mac etc etc however after about 1hour and half of messing around adding the printer via LDP and IP addrress worked!

Thanks,

A bug report has been submitted to CUPS about this issue. There is one other line that intrigues me: "auth-info-required is set to negotiate, but AUTH_UID is not in env" Anyone with CUPS background know what I can set in cups.conf or printers.conf to try and fix this?

Does anyone have the bug id (link) to the issue? I also think there is a problem with CUPS and samba printing. As far I I could figure out when using CUPS and a samba printer, CUPS will use /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb to send the job to the network printer. This is also what I see when I view the CUPS error log:

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] Failed to connect to "smb://192.168.0.12/": STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] Set job-printer-state-message to "Authentication required", current level=ERROR

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] smb backend (PID=24140) stopped with status 512

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] smb backend will exit with status 2

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] Received SIGPIPE

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] Wrote 1 pages...

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] Backend returned status 2 (authentication required)

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] Job held for authentication.

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] End of messages

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] printer-state=3(idle)

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] printer-state-message="Authentication required"

D [08/Aug/2011:13:23:15 +0200] [Job 11] printer-state-reasons=none

Before upgrading to Lion the printer setup works, now I get this error about authentication. I tried to call the smb directly, but with the same results:

DEVICE_URI="smb://192.168.0.12/PRINTER_NAME" AUTH_INFO_REQUIRED="none" /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb 42 me sometitle 1 test.ps

Trying different printing protocols is not option for me, since they are not enabled on the printer side. Also removing entries from the keychain did not help.

Does anyone have some more insight?

In Snow Leopard my printer worked fine with each user entering their Account name and password for the MAC to print on a shared printer on XP. After installing Lion no one could print. I finally found that entering the username and password for the XP machine would allow us to print but would not save this information to key chain. Using keychain access and deleting keys related to the printer allowed the next print attempt to succeed and save the new information to key chain. I did not have to reinstall the printer. This was my experience.

What worked in my case:

The issue was that spoolss, the "new" samba, was failing when authenticating to windows users who had special characters in their passwords. With snow leopard, and earlier, this was not a problem.

The workaround was to have users with special characters in their windows logon passwords (such as % symbols...), simply remove them and use alphanumerics only.

This change allows for only legal characters in the smb: URI that will be presented by lion clients to the windows printer host.

Hi Guys,

this is what worked for me adding a Windows Domain Printer:

1. Point Safari to http://localhost:631

2. Select top menu "Administration"

3. Select "Add Printer"

4. Authenticate if requested

5. Select "Windows printer via spoolss" and press "Continue"

6. Use the following sintaxe to add the printer "smb://DOMAIN;LOGIN:PASSWORD@SERVERNAME/PRINTQUEUE" in the "Connection" field and press "Continue" (replace CAPITALS with your own configuration)

7. Introduce a name in the "Name" field, for example MyPrinter

8. Select your printer Manufacturer from the "Make" list and press "Continue"

8. Select your printer Model from the "Model" list and press "Add Printer"

Good Luck!

Thank you Stylle!

I had been struggling with this since installing Lion.

Per another suggestion I removed the special character in my password, which by itself did not seem to work.

But after doing that and then following your instructions I am now printing. The difference from what I was entering for the SMB://... was the addition of the DOMAIN;

Thanks for posting and solving my problem.

Jay

BTW - my printer is hosted on a Windows 2000 computer. It has a local administrator login and password, which I tried, but it did not work with that information. Only the steps above, using a domain login (and removing the special characters in my password) worked for me.

The same in my case: after changing my password to one without an exclamation mark, printing works! I also had to enter ONLY my username (i.e. NOT domain/username) when prompted.

Now everythig works fine again.

Daniel

Oops, my post was a bit too fast. I can print again, but there are some funny glitches. Sometimes the job is halted in the print queue with the note "authentication required". When I click on Continue, the entire printer queue freezes (spinning wheel) and has to be force-quit. I can circumvent this issue by simply deleting the job, going back to my application and starting another print job. That one passes right through to the printer...

So, I'm almost there. Does anybody have a similar issue? Any solutions? I's love to try Stylle's solution, but what I don't like about it is the fact that you have to write down the password entirely unprotected...

Daniel

With Stylle's solution once you enter the smb://... string into the CUPS Add Printer screen the login/password disappears and is stored in the Keychain. You cannot see it once the printer is set up unless you go to Keychain Access.

Thanks Stylle, your process worked perfectly for me.

Is there any other workaround for the "special characters" other than removing them from your password?

I have the "&" character in my password :-(

rjschutten: You might try putting the string into quotes, like “my.c0mPl1cat3d.P@ssW3rd”.

Otherwise, you might be able to escape the &, as: \& replacing your &.

None of the suggested solutions works in my case. Printer shared via a QNAP NAS where so far no password was required. I tried all of the suggested possible soltutions and none worked so far :-(

Alan you are right!

I have just tested with various usernames. All without special characters works fine with 10.7.2.

Stupid but true!