actually I set the DefaultAuthType to "basic" now, but it still seems to be using none auth: D [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] [Client 21] Authorized as yyang using PeerCred D [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] [Client 21] 2.0 Get-Jobs 268 D [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost/printers/rsa D [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Jobs (ipp://localhost/printers/rsa) from localhost D [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs and dirty files", busy="Active clients, printing jobs, an d dirty files" D [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] [Job 192] ATTR: auth-info-required=none D [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] load_ppd: Loading /var/cache/cups/rsa.data... D [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] cupsdRegisterPrinter(p=0xb7e45d90(rsa)) D [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] cupsdMarkDirty(P-----) D [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs and dirty files", busy="Printing jobs and dirty files" D [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] [Job 192] PID 5103 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp14) stopped with status 2. I [09/Oct/2012:09:59:30 -0700] [Job 192] Backend returned status 2 (authentication required) on the remote printer server side, I see the following debug log: D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:13 -0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 14 from localhost (Domain) D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:13 -0700] Report: clients=1 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:13 -0700] Report: jobs=1 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:13 -0700] Report: jobs-active=0 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:13 -0700] Report: printers=1 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:13 -0700] Report: printers-implicit=0 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:13 -0700] Report: stringpool-string-count=13712 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:13 -0700] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=9240 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=247592 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdReadClient: 14 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients", busy="Not busy" D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdReadClient: 14 1.1 CUPS-Get-Printers 1 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] CUPS-Get-Printers D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] Returning IPP successful-ok for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from localhost D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy", busy="Active clients" D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdReadClient: 14 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients", busy="Not busy" D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdReadClient: 14 1.1 CUPS-Get-Classes 1 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] CUPS-Get-Classes D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] Returning IPP successful-ok for CUPS-Get-Classes (no URI) from localhost D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy", busy="Active clients" D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdReadClient: 14 WAITING Closing on EOF D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdCloseClient: 14 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:14 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy", busy="Not busy" D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:41 -0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 14 from 192.168.0.3:631 (IPv4) D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:41 -0700] cupsdReadClient: 14 POST /printers/HP_LaserJet_P2035 HTTP/1.1 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:41 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients", busy="Not busy" D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:41 -0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:41 -0700] cupsdCloseClient: 14 D [09/Oct/2012:10:09:41 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy", busy="Active clients"