-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-05-22 at 00:11 -0400, Bob S wrote:
password for CUPS using the lppasswd command:#lppasswd -g sys -a root This requires you to enter a password that is used specifically for CUPS administration. -------------------------- I cannot see or find where to do that.
On an xterm as root. This is necesary to access <http://localhost:631> and configure printers from there as root.
Thanks John, Carlos
Did that in a root console. Should have mentioned that. Got a malformed url reply.
What on earth are you typing? You have to type, on an xterm, logged as root: lppasswd -g sys -a root and nothing else. It can not give you "malformed url", bash doesn't have that message.
If it ever accepts that, will it then ask me to provide a user name and password? And, is that even necessary to make the printer work?
It is necessary to administrate it. You can not add a new printer if you are not authorized.
I can access localhost:631on his machine and the printer shows up there as properly configured. It does not ask for a password. I can even send a "test print" from there and the printer shows a waiting in queque, "waiting 30 seconds to try again"
That's different, it is stuck. tell it to stop and reenable it. Look at the cups logs.
On my own 10.3 I can access localhost:631 and print and change things as a normal user, but it is an epson.
I wonder if changing it to a parallel port instead of usb would work. It worked in Windows as usb. Shouldn't make any difference what port it is plugged into, should it? Think I might see it with a hwinfo ?
Should work anyway, but I can't know. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFINSoitTMYHG2NR9URAq5pAJ40P+gtCPCjrIp9iWg3UZgebQ3FFQCdGlZ1 eibKB7tuZCRk2HiQ/14ITek= =I8Pj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----