On Saturday 30 October 2004 08:39 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Peter N. Spotts wrote:
Folks,
Hi Pete,
Perhaps through choking my system (SuSE 9.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303 laptop) with too many print jobs, the printer stopped (HP Deskjet 6122) and CUPS shows my printer as inactive. But when I try to log in with root username and password to reactivate it, CUPS doesn't accept them. I've tried KDE and Gnome's printer managers on the outside chance that the switch might make a difference. But it doesn't. I've also tried using Yast to uninstall and reinstall my printer. While I get the "Hello World" test page, again, no jobs print once I'm working with applications and have reoriented them to the "new" installation of my printer. And I've tried powering down, then repowering the printer. Is there a CUPS configuration file I need to tweak, or am I stuck with having to uninstall and reinstall CUPS?
With best regards,
Off a recent mailing I received: Troubleshooting and administration/control of printers in Linux from the command line http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,16zm,1,1mgb,5ejy,4c69,h6di
I haven't the site/s yet so do tell.
HIH Did you do lppasswd -a <nameof user>
The default for CUPS from SuSE is to not have a user assigned, some security thing. If you use root as the name of the user it will then ask for a password. THEN you can do what you need to. There have been several threads recently on this problem. ra -- Old age ain't for Sissies!