Mac OS X 10.5 requires you to enter an administrator's password to pause/resume a print queue, where no previous version of OS X has done so. This is extremely annoying in a lab setting -- if there's a paper jam or something, the queues on all the computers need to be restarted by an administrator, instead of the user just clicking Resume.

If you configure your Mac this way you can then log into the admin account and use the Users & Groups system preferences to change your main account’s password. If you know the name and password of an admin account on your Mac, you can use that account to reset the password. Log in with the name and password of the other admin account. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups. Click, then enter the admin name and password again. Select your user name from the list of users.

I haven't seen a solution to this elsewhere, so here's what I came up with: • As root, or in a Terminal session with su privileges, edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. • Find this section. AuthType Default Require user @AUTHKEY(system.print.admin) @admin @lpadmin Order deny,allow • Remove the items you don't want limited: Pause-Printer, Resume-Printer, Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job, etc. • Save the file, quit the editor, and restart your computer.

After restarting, you should be able to pause/resume the print queue as any user. Hope this helps, it was annoying the heck out of me. This problem has been plaguing us ever since we upgraded this summer.

I was very excited to publish printers using OD, but found early on that the printers would randomly pause themselves and the above stated problem would ensue for my users. I've been tracking it for quite some time and I think it's because the PPDs, as configured on the server, aren't sent out to the workstations by OD. Avast cleanup pro for mac review. I can set all the necessary printing preferences on the server (ie: set the printer to duplex), but when I go back to a workstation, they're all set to the defaults.

The default error policy for all printers is to stop printing. Creating the printer locally and changing the options seems to work, but if the printer is coming down from the directory, BAM!--problems. This is a great workaround, but I still think it's just that and not a true solution. Anyone know if Apple has addressed this issue in versions later than 10.5.4 (Client and Server)? Still not fixed in 10.5.6. Also, we recently updated our HP drivers for another type of printer, and for some reason, HP changed the default config for one of their PPDs. Now, the PPD in questions that comes down via MCX has the default tray set to the letter feed instead of the tray underneath.