Os x print to windows print server

United States English. Post an article. Subscribe to Article RSS. Click Sign In to add the tip, solution, correction or comment that will help other users. Report inappropriate content using these instructions. Go to System Preferences on the Mac. But as you have seen, you do need to authenticate in order to print.

Now if you don't have a Windows account you can use although I would expect that you have otherwise there is no account to register the useage against then you will have to get your IT department to create one for you.

Then you can use this when you get prompted to authenticate - and save this to keychain for future printing. Jan 11, AM. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: mr-h mr-h.

Am I missing something obvious? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks a bunch for any help you all can give. Once the role has been installed, you are ready to install printers onto your Workstations. Within this dialog, click the [Turn Windows Features on or off] on the left hand side. The Windows Features dialog will open. The add printer dialog will appear. Once selected a variety of fields need to be filled in to reference your printer on your print server.

The below should guide you to each one. Once all is configured, clicking Add should finalize the installation of the printer. Installing a Printer via Windows Printer Sharing:. From here click on the [Windows] button. After clicking the [Windows] button, the browse dialog may appear black for several minutes.

The system is actually busy locating the available Windows networks, but does not have any indication of this. Once the networks have loaded, you can click each network to list the servers within the network. Clicking on the server, will attempt to load the printer shares on that server. Again each click of network or server may take several minutes to load without any indication that it is busy. Depending on if you are authenticated, you may next get prompted for a username and password to view the shares on the server.

You will need to enter your domain credentials. After this you will see the list of shared printers. The printer will not be installed and usable.

Securing and Restricting Mac OS X Printing A common issue that comes up when using either of these forms of printing, are ensuring the user printing from Mac is the correct user so their printing can be managed and tracked properly.

Consider these two scenarios. Situation B: Using Printing Via Windows Shares, but a user has saved their password In this case, all print jobs are sent as the first user who happened to click Save my password. In a print tracking scenario, this would show a false statistic regarding who is actually printing each job.

This add-on option requires explicit authentication on each print job by interacting with the Authentication Module running on each Mac.