On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 19:42 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I have a cups server that has been working perfectly for several years. > Recently my Debian and Macbooks (Firefox only) where all upgraded and > now the printer does not work for the macbooks. > > Here's the CUPS error entry: > cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided > > > here's the fun part. > It works perfectly from MS Word on Mac and OpenOffice on Mac. > It doesn't work for FireFox, Thunderbird or Preview (Apple PDF). > > Because of the OpenOffice and Word I was thinking that this is not a > problem with the printer configuration and that it might be a problem > with recent upgrades to FireFox. Except my wife, who did not upgrade > FireFox has the same problem. > > Add to that the fact that the Preview can't print either (not upgraded). > > I'm currenlty, because of the error, of the opinion that my Debian > printer server has taken a turn for the worse. > > I have no authentication that I recall adding. > There is something that might be new - CUPS-Authenticate-Jobs that I'm > not familiar with. > > But if this is server related -- how does OpenOffice and MS Word get > around this? I'm really in a jamb here because I *need* my printer for > college. > SNIP
What kernel are you running on the print server? I had this issue in 2.6.24-2.6.26-something. In my case it was a kernel bug in the tcp stack. The work around was to set in /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv4.tcp_frto = 0 you can test this by echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/frt0 I have no idea if this is the same issue, I am just guessing. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
