[MacTUG] new retail services printers and Papercut (Uprint)

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

If this is of any use to anyone, it is likely of use to those configuring Uprint printers (via papercut). Dani and I are using slightly different settings for configuring printers. It is a summary of my first note and some testing. Others that are doing this (Arch, Arts on Waterloo Campus, and Arts in Stratford) may also be doing things different and I would like to know. I think Ed is doing things pretty much like Dani?

This was prompted by the new Retail Services Xerox colour printers. As stated (eg https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/7082/papercut-+-os-x-+-sso-bliss) “- o auth-info-required=negotiate” option helps with single sign on.

Most of the configurations that Dani and I are using are the same:

Dani: lpadmin -p queue_name -E -v "smb://server_name/queue_name" -P "/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/ppd_name" -o printer-is-shared=false -o OpPolicy=Kerberos -o State=Idle -o Accepting=Yes -o printer-error-policy=retry-job

Don:  lpadmin -p queue_name -E -v smb://server_name/queue_name -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/ppd_name  -D  queue_name  -o printer-is-shared=false  -o printer-op-policy='default' -o auth-info-required=negotiate


Another issue is that the new printers were generating “warning messages” in the print queue (https://www.dropbox.com/s/m21p5iha713twkp/Screen%20Shot%202017-08-02%20at%205.46.18%20PM.png?dl=0). Setting the -o printer-op-policy='default' fixed this. The other options (-o printer-op-policy='Kerberos'-o or printer-op-policy='authenticated') did not fix this. Note that ‘default’ was not my traditional setting, I was using ‘authenticated’ (I read somewhere to change this).


Regarding a few other differences, Danny was using the -o printer-error-policy=retry-job which is likely a good idea since I just realized the default is ‘stop-printer’, so I will add this. I cannot find that much documentation on the other options (State=Idle -o Accepting=Yes) that he is using that I am not. Just to round it out, I am using the –D flag which just lets you put in a (pretty useless) textual description.


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From: Dani Roloson <daroloson at uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 9:47 AM
To: Donald Duff-McCracken <dsmccrac at uwaterloo.ca>, MacTUG <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: new retail services printers


We've been using

/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p queue_name -E -v "smb://server_name/queue_name" -P "/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/ppd_name" -o printer-is-shared=false -o OpPolicy=Kerberos -o State=Idle -o Accepting=Yes -o printer-error-policy=retry-job
with the below for HP's

-o HPOption_Duplexer=true

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From: mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca <mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca> on behalf of Donald Duff-McCracken <dsmccrac at uwaterloo.ca>
Sent: August 2, 2017 18:26
To: MacTUG
Subject: [MacTUG] new retail services printers
Hi folks
We are getting some new printers from retail services and my lpradmin command which has worked for quite some time, ceased working:
lpadmin -p queue_name -v smb://server_name/queue_name  -D  queue_name  -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/ppd_name -o printer-op-policy='default' -o printer-is-shared=false -E
I was getting these danged “Printer Status Incoming” pests in my queue. See screen shot here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m21p5iha713twkp/Screen%20Shot%202017-08-02%20at%205.46.18%20PM.png?dl=0.  A little googling and I realized I had not included the “auth-info-required=negotiate” option
lpadmin -p queue_name -v smb://server_name/queue_name  -D  queue_name  -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/ppd_name -o printer-op-policy='default' -o printer-is-shared=false -E -o auth-info-required=negotiate
More info: I was initially doing as described here (not that I got the info from here but it is what I was doing):  https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/7082/papercut-+-os-x-+-sso-bliss but a bit farther digging lead to this thread https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/7082/papercut-+-os-x-+-sso-bliss. The funny thing is that I have not been having the problem (of requiring the the “ auth-info-required=negotiate” option) until these new printers.

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