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Law School Printing Info for Mac Laptops

List of printers revised. Outdated instructions for installing DAVE removed. OS X info 8/23/04
OSX directions updated. CUPS/DAVE info removed. 05/12/07 dl9c.

Disclaimer: Law School Mac users are not supported by the Law School, but the following information is provided, with no guarantees, for those who may wish to use it. If you use this and have success (or not) or suggestions for this help page, please let us know at lawitc@virginia.edu. Other Mac users may wish to know what your experiences were.

The Law School uses Windows NT/Active Directory authentication to authenticate users on its printer accounting system. Macs with OS X 10.2 and higher have the capability to use NT Authentication for printing (also known as SMB or CIFS) without additional software, but this is likely to be slightly technically challenging.

Your Mac must, of course, be connected to the Law network via either a working wireless or wired connection before you can set up printing. In order to be sure that you know the LawNT password needed for printing, be sure that you have successfully logged on in the Law school computer lab before proceeding with the printer addition.

  • Open “System Preferences” (click on apple in upper left corner)
  • Select “Print & Fax”
  • Under the left column listing your installed printers, click the “+” to add a new printer
      1. This will open the pop up “Printer Browser” window
  • OPTION+click the “More Printers...” button at the bottom of the window
      1. This will reveal a slide-out menu of printing options
  • In the first drop-down menu select “Advanced” (at the bottom of the list)
      1. If you do not see “Advanced” at the bottom of the list, you failed to OPTION+click the “More Printers...” button at step 4
  • In the Device drop-down menu, select “Windows Printer via SAMBA” (near the bottom of the list)
  • Give the printer some name. This is how the printer will be listed on your system
  • In the Device URL text box, the following syntax must be observed precisely:
      1. smb://username:password@LAWSCHOOL/128.143.28.153/WBLab
      2. username is your computing ID, password is your NT password
      3. there can be no spaces in the string
  • In the Printer Model drop-down menu, select “HP”
  • In the sub-menu that opens below the Printer Model menu, select “HP LaserJet 6 series – Gimp-Print v5.0.0-beta2”
  • Click the “Add” button
  • Repeat steps 1-8 above for each new printer you wish to add
      1. Replacing “WBLab” with:
          1. WB248
              1. (second floor copy room)
          2. Libreserve
          3. LibResrv2

    Mac users can check their printing balances from the LawWeb intranet page ("Check Printing Balance").



    General Info about the law network for those who want to experiment with OS X 10.2 or better or use DAVE or other third-party SMB/CIFS printing software