When initially adding a printer within KDE settings it allows you to add a username and password (this is important where it requires a different username and password to the local user's - as it might for printing on a work or university network from a laptop). However, there appears to be no way to modify the username/password for the printer after the initial creation, or to add a username and password to a printer later. It would be great if something could be implemented to allow changing of these settings later. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go to the printers control module 2.Click on a previously configured printer and press configure Actual Results: 3.There appears to be no way to add/change username and password Expected Results: Username/ password boxes should be available allowing modification. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go to the printers control module 2.Click on a previously configured printer and press configure Actual Results: 3.There appears to be no way to add/change username and password after initial setup (whereas there as during setup - Expected Results: Username/ password boxes should be available allowing modification. There is a box in the initial KDE printer setup which allows you to add these username and passwords (Add printer > windows printer via samba, and see under authentication). I initially created this bug here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322394 but because of misunderstanding it got closed before the issue had been understood/resolved.
I have no printers configured in my system so I can't help you much, but I guess this bug should be marked as whislist.
This bug affects me also. There is no way to change password windows printer via samba. In my work, I have to change the password monthly !!
I found a workaround for this bug: https://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/kubuntukarmic-change-smb-network-printer-authentication/
Ok, now I understood your question, I'm not exactly sure one can change the device URI, can you do this change on CUPS web interface http://localhost:631 ?
Oh and that workaround is for an old KDE tool, might work for print-manager too but I can't remember :)
(In reply to Daniel Nicoletti from comment #4) > Ok, now I understood your question, I'm not exactly sure one can change the > device URI, can you do this change on CUPS web interface > http://localhost:631 ? No, I didn't find a way to do it with CUPS. However, gnome printer manager has this feature.(In reply to Daniel Nicoletti from comment #5) > Oh and that workaround is for an old KDE tool, might work for print-manager > too but I can't remember :) It works fine with KDE plasma 5.11
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what kind of info you want?
Requested information was provided with comment #6.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 313619 ***