Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.6.2) OS: FreeBSD The printer I use requires password to access and print. Whenever any user tries to print, they are prompted for a user name and password in a dialog saying "Authentication Required". Entering user names and passwords will allow one to print. Unfortunately, I find that there is NO such "Authentication Required" dialog for system-config-printer-kde. So whenever I print from any KDE application(like Ocular, Kile, etc), it fails. Very annoying. On the other hand, I can print from any non-KDE applications like firefox, thunderbird, etc, because they all have the "Authentication Required" dialog. I have another machine running Ubuntu(Gnome) on which the printer works flawlessly. It usually shows a dialog like this: http://cyberelk.net/tim/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/authentication-dialog.png Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try to print from any KDE application(like Ocular, Kile, etc) using a network printer which requires password authentication. Actual Results: NO such "Authentication Required" dialog shows up. Fails to print. Expected Results: Should show an "Authentication Required" dialog which will allow user to enter password to access the printer.
Hallo, I got the same problem on Fedora 15 with KDE. Maybe anyone can fix this, because it's really annoying. (I have to use GTK applications to print.) Mebus
I have the same problem printing to windows shared printers which require authentication. I have been able to solve it by configuring the printer uri to contain the username and password, i.e the printer url looks somewhat like this: smb://DOMAIN\username:password@COMPUTER/PRINTER However this stores the password in a systemwide plaintext file, which is not very security friendly :-)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 230522 ***