Print job "Held for authentication"
Apparently, this is a problem/complication that was introduced in the version of Samba included in (at least) the initial release of Ubuntu 12.04. I don't know if there was an update for 12.04 to fix this -- updates don't appear to be available for Udoobuntu.
I resolved it by following Comment #17 from the launchpad bug "acces denied samba printer shares after upgrade precise".
Excerpt from server's smb.conf:
[global]
map to guest = bad user
########## Printing ##########
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
use client driver = yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
public = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
create mask = 0700
The consensus seemed to be that the key was use client driver = yes
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I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I had the same problem. the status message "Held for authentication" in the client print queue . To solve this issue, I just install from Synaptic these two packages :
- smbclient
- cifs-utils
and it works well now for me ! Hope that solves your problem too ...