I have a printer installed on an ubuntu server (12.04 LTS)
I can print items with no issue, but it always prompts for a username and password, which is super annoying.
I tried everything I could find about it online but nothing seems to remove the prompt.
I set DefaultAuthType to None in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, still a prompt.
also just read this post:
Cups is always asking for password when printing on a certain printer
but that didn't help either sadly, though for me I only have one printer so I'm baffled on what to do now.
Thanks.
EDIT:
Here is what my CUPS files look like:
printer.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.5.3
# Written by cupsd # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING
<DefaultPrinter Canon_MX310_series>
UUID urn:uuid:5a7453c6-3dc0-3bce-53f1-7584efb6144a
Info Canon MX310 series
Location Living Rm
MakeModel Canon PIXMA MX300 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.8-pre1
DeviceURI usb://Canon/MX310%20series?serial=16BE66&interface=1
State Idle
StateTime 1388353343
Type 12627980
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
AuthInfoRequired none
ErrorPolicy retry-job
Option media-col media-bottom-margin
</Printer>
cupsd.conf
LogLevel warn
MaxLogSize 0
SystemGroup lpadmin
# Allow remote access
Port 631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS dnssd
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
DefaultAuthType None
WebInterface Yes
<Location />
# Allow remote administration...
Order allow,deny
Allow all
</Location>
<Location /admin>
AuthType None
# Allow remote administration...
Order allow,deny
Allow all
</Location>
<Location /admin/conf>
AuthType None
Require user @SYSTEM
# Allow remote access to the configuration files...
Order allow,deny
Allow all
</Location>
<Policy default>
JobPrivateAccess default
JobPrivateValues default
SubscriptionPrivateAccess default
SubscriptionPrivateValues default
<Limit Create-Job Print-Job Print-URI Validate-Job>
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job Cancel-My-Jobs Close-Job CUPS-Move-Job CUPS-Get-Document>
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default CUPS-Get-Devices>
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After Cancel-Jobs CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit All>
Order deny, allow
</Limit>
</Policy>
<Policy authenticated>
JobPrivateAccess default
JobPrivateValues default
SubscriptionPrivateAccess default
SubscriptionPrivateValues default
<Limit Create-Job Print-Job Print-URI Validate-Job>
AuthType Default
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job Cancel-My-Jobs Close-Job CUPS-Move-Job CUPS-Get-Document>
AuthType Default
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default>
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After Cancel-Jobs CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
AuthType None
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny, allow
</Limit>
<Limit All>
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
</Policy>