Hold For Authentication Mac

I understand that you are trying to use an HP ENVY 5544 All-in-One Printer with a Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan computer and you are being prompted to enter a username, which is pre-filled with 'guest', and a password. Followed by an 'Held for Authentication' message in the queue. Printer job 'On hold (authentication required)'. If you have a USB printer available, then one of the easiest ways to make it a communal printer is to share it on the network. However, there may be times when in attempting to print to such printers, you see your print job spool to the device, but it then sits in your print queue with a small message that states something about the job being on hold with authentication required.

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This is good info. It's the way I've always done it. However, what I've never figured out is how can I edit all of this information once a printer has been set up? Say I want to change the printer share name (on the Mac side) without having to 'add' a new printer. I can't see how it can be done. Am I missing something?
Thanks.

You can edit this stuff later via CUPS:
http://127.0.0.1:631 in your favorite web browser.
Select 'Manage Printers' then 'Modify Printer' for whichever one you want to change the settings on.
The only (big) problem with this hint is you have no choice but to put your credentials in clear text - this is probably not an acceptable solution in a real Windows domain environment.

Have you tried using CUPS through your internet browser? The address is 127.0.0.1:631. Choose 'Manage Printers', then 'Modify Printer' under the printer you want to change (if you are asked to log in, use your OS X admin login).
CUPS should take you through all of the printer's settings and allow you to change any of them.

Our sysadmins require periodic network password changes that break the Windows printers on my Mac. I have my Windows network passwords saved in the cups config file at /etc/cups/printers.conf as 'smb://username:password@Domain/Path/To/Printer'. The easiest way to change passwords I've found is to do this from Terminal.app:

sudo vi /etc/printers.conf and change the password, then

sudo SystemStarter restart PrintingServices to restart CUPS.

You could also change the printer name via the same method. I haven't seen any other method of changing the Windows network password for CUPS printing. The 'http://127.0.0.1:631' method doesn't seem to allow this.

Hold For Authentication Mac Printer

I use Bonjour for Windows found at http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bonjourforwindows.html. I started using it to print to a Mac but when I had to install a laster printer on a Windows machine, it was very easy to connect a Mac to the printer on the Windows machine. Like the rest of bonjour, it was very easy!

S Barman -- Thanks for mentioning Bonjour. Pic collage for macbook air. I've spent countless hours trying to print from Windows to my Mac using SMB, and was not aware of Bonjour for Windows until I saw your post. I gave it a shot, and it instantly just worked!

Please be aware that doing this stores your password in clear text in the CUPS config file, and your password is sent in clear text over the network every time you print a file.
Depending on how paranoid you are, you might want to create a separate account used just for printing on the windows machine.
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I can confirm this works. I'd been trying (unsuccessfully) to do this for months. I'd just about given up, but I stumbled across a page that had similar instructions and it worked superbly.
Now its on here too! Wonderful!

hi..
uhm..i have a mac book pro and my dads got a dell and he has a canon pixma 3000ip connected to his machine..
now is it possilble for me to connect to his printer via bonjour? cause we are on the same network but my mac just doesnt show his printer..
any hints?

I have a MacBook Pro with OS 10.4.10.
After I try the solution suggested here I still get the NT_STATUS_NO_MEMORY error. Then when I check the data in CUPS I find the user:password part of the string missing. All I see is the computer/printer part. Then when I try to correct the string in CUPS and check it again, the user:password part is still missing.
Any suggestions about what I am not doing right?
Thanks,
Roger

Hold For Authentication Hp Printer Mac

The trick to get this to work is to set the Workgroup name for the Workgroup or Domain that your printer is in. You can set that name in one of two places, depending if you have 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.4 (Tiger) and below.
For 10.4 and below, you will need to open Directory Access in your Utilities folder. For 10.5, they have moved that option. You'll want to open the Network panel in System Preferences, click on your active network device (Ethernet or Airport) and click Advanced. Once there, select the WINS tab and enter your Workgroup or Domain.
This resolves the authentication issue because when you try to print and are challenged with the user authentication dialog, the server on the other end is *expecting* the format 'domainusername' -- but dialog box is not explicit in telling you to use that format. Having completed the Workgroup/Domain field from the above paragraph resolves this often-missed step, so simply entering your username will now work.
Good luck!

Be sure to see this hint too on making the WINS info stick. There's a bug in the location manager that won't allow edits to the Automatic location. A quick duplication and renaming fixes the issue.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028135158180

Go to the windows machine and type Ctrl Alt Del simultaneously. This will start Windows task manager. Click on the user tab you will see something like this RAPHAELmichel. In this case michel is the user name and raphael is the machine name. Enter the correct user name and machine name and all will work perfectly!

Is ANY BODY AT APPLE LISTENING?
Why cant my wife's MAC print to a printer shared by my Windows XP PC right out of the (MAC)box.. SOP? I think the problem here is failure to communicate. Apple is too caught up in their 'DOES IT LOOK COOL' mind-set to make sure 'it' works well with other products. I hate to say it but the simplest solution to this(MAC's) problem is to buy another printer for your MAC .. its seems APPLE did not learn how to 'SHARE' in kindergarden. Every time I touch the'MAC' $3,000+ its a nightmare. My advice sell it(MAC) and buy a PC .. for the money you will get 4 times the machine and it will print to shared printers .. dang how about that. Some times ugly is beautiful. Before all you APPLE gurus blow a circuit, solve the problem .. anyone .. APPLE you out there?

I used this setup to print from my Mac, but then it stopped working in the middle of a print job. Any ideas?

Also see: How to manually add a Windows shared printer on the Apple Support site.