Printing from OSX to windows 2003 Ricoh printer doesnt do a thing

Question

Set is as follows
windows 2003 server with a bunch of XP boxes and 4 macbooks 10.4.10 attached via wireless network.
Everything network wise on the MAcbooks work fine on the network
except the printer.
I can see the Ricoh in OSX printer page and installed the latest osx driver for it on the macbooks and they simply wont print. The XP boxes work perfect
What is the best way to set this up. The printer is a big Ricoh Aficio 3245C
I have spent hours mucking about with this and can't see why it wont work.
Should it be setup as an IP printer? if so how does one go about this.
I have the IP of the Ricoh 010.007.080.201

Answer 1

Hi Greg,
My W2K3 printing server w/ IIS is listening on ports 80 and 443 (it's a constraint).
We found the issue : cups doesn't seem to be able to authenticate on NTLM method. If i set IIS to "basic authentication" (clear text), it works.
It's not a problem since i use SSL thus the username and password is encrypted, but i'd like to know if cups is able to dialog with NTLM...
Thanks for your answer.