"Hold For Authentication"

[starru]

Because we're a bi-computer family, my husband has our printer set up on his new Windows 8.1 machine. I was able to network my MacBook running Mavericks and use the printer fine when he was using his Windows 7 machine, but even though I'm able to see the printer, every time I attempt to print the document, I get the "Hold For Authentication."

I've seen a few places online offer a workaround by saying use "guest/guest" as the username and password, but that doesn't work for me.

If anyone has any thoughts, they would be gratefully appreciated.

 

[markyr17]

I think you need to use his windows username and password to print. Some authentication changes were made in Windows 8 that weren't present in Windows 7

 

[starru]

The thing is, I'm actually the one set up as the administrator for the Windows machine. And I still get the error. Let me try his and see what happens.

I don't hate on Windows, but it really shouldn't be this hard for it to talk to OSX.