Printing to our school printer works but I have to authenticate very time:
How do I save the authentication the print jobs are asking for?
The question is to what are you authenticating. To a printer/print farm or a Corporate network?
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Fedora 43 Budgie / X11 / smb shared printer with accounting system
Have you had a look in seahorse if you can see some entry for the printer/accounting system?
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/wifi-passwords-location
So in other words, it is the wifi connection it asks you for?
Sorry that was confusing no. I don´t need to store the wifi password, that is stored. And I thought it would store it Seahorse but it is stored somewhere else.
The problem with the print dialog: it does not allow me to store the password.
Have you checked with the Network department from the school? Eventually it is a security issue and has to be configured extra, also to make the live harder to using the printer. Modern way to save money 
Thanks!
It’s this dialog without a way to save the password:
If I print from the Atril Document Viewer I see the status SMB connection failed!
In seahorse I can only add a password:
If it is smb (samba) try to add same username and pw as on your computer you connect.
I remember that this worked in early days when using samba do connect devices.
The userinterface of this screen needs mending. Apparently there are other stores which only appear when clicking the top left left arrow. There I was able to find the “Default keyring” and was able to locate the connection settings for the said printer server connection.
Why the developer of Seahorse chose to show and complain about an empty random key store ignoring the Default Keyring is beyond me.
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So you could save the password now? Have you rebooted and tested if it still works?
Unfortunately that is the reality. Developers come and go. If sponsoring/support is missing such things are just not fixed.
In my case I realized that seahorse is searching for keys and displays me the message to wait for the application.
The GnuGP keys are the first empty section which the software is displaying then.
There is probably just missing a main section which is displaying a text like:
"Seahorse/Passwords is searching on the system for available keys/pw’s etc. Please be patient and wait till the software displays the results.
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Thanks no. the password was there alltogether. We have to change our SMB password frequently and in the Default Keyring was the wrong one.
I’m not sure why I would want to store anything in GnuPG keys when there is a Default keyring. Showing a message for GnuPG keys This collection seems to be empty is neither helpful nor correct. (it doesn’t seem to be empty it is !)
If I find time I will probaly make a PR for Seahorse to show the list of Passwords and Keys by default:
(Maybe remove GnuPG from Seahorse altogether. Those who need it (nerds) should just use cli gpg…)
