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Authenticated printing w/ Mac clients and Equitrac
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Gibson)
Wed Apr 6 16:38:36 2011
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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:38:02 -0400
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From: Brian Gibson <gibson_brian@wheatoncollege.edu>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
Hi all,
Anyone out there using the print authentication software from Equitrac?
We run it on a Windows 2008 Server and Equitrac uses Active Directory
for authentication. It works great for Windows machines that are joined
to the domain but for the Macs we have (which are not joined to the
domain) it is a real hassle. For the Macs they have to have the Equitrac
Client software installed and every time you print it pops up a window
for you to enter in your Active Directry username and password. I'm not
a Mac admin but I 'think' I have tried just about everything to try and
get around the end user having to enter in the username and password for
every print job. Here is what I have tried.
1. I have tried joining the Macs to the domain but that didn't seem to
help pass the user credentials along like it does on a Windows box.
2. Instead of setting up the queue as an Equitrac queue we have tried
setting it up as a Windows client against the print server and this
seems to work in certain cases. One problem is you have to be able to
browse the network (like Network Neighborhood Browsing) to find the
print server and our network is segmented and you can't always find it.
I've setup a WINS server and pointed the clients and the print server
at it but it doesn't help the client find the server in the browsing window.
3. There is a way to bring up an advanced printing menu to enter in an
smb URL to the printing server and queue but in certain OS versions
(10.6 I think) you have to embed your AD username and password in the
URL. It gets saved in a text file in clear text which is an issue and it
if you change your password (which we do every 6 months) you have to
re-set up your queues.
Has anyone out there gotten past this?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Brian Gibson
Systems Administrator
Wheaton College
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