F9 - cups - windows shared printer

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 13:50 +0000, g wrote:
> g wrote:
> <snip>
> >> and appropriate section of cupsd.conf...
> >>
> >> <Location /printers/officejet>
> >> Order Deny,Allow
> >> Deny From All
> >> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> >> Allow From 192.168.2.0
> >> AuthType None
> >> </Location>
> >>
> >> which clearly tells me that no authentication should be necessary
> >>
> >> How do I fix this?
> > 
> > i am not using f9, nor windows. i do use cups under another system, but
> > not this one so i can not look at conf files.
> > 
> > from above, i have a question. what would happen if you changed above
> > to read;
> > 
> >  <Location /printers/officejet>
> >  Order Allow,Deny
> >  Allow From 127.0.0.1
> >  Allow From 192.168.2.0
> >  Deny From All
> >  AuthType None
> >  </Location>
> > 
> > this is logic order of 'host' allow then deny.
> > 
> > just a thought.
> 
> in thinking about above, i checked cups.conf and found that,
> 
>   <Policy default>
>   <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer
>   <Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
>   <Limit All>
> 
> are in 'deny,allow' order, rest are 'allow,deny' order.
> 
> so this makes me wonder why an order of 'allow,deny' would not be used
> in all cases.
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actually, somehow, this...

AuthInfoRequired negotiate

got into /etc/cups/printers.conf in the printer definition and removing
the line completely solved it.

I have no idea how it got there

Craig