-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-04-07 at 01:59 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Well, the password thing seemed not to have worked. When I went to the print manager, and it asked for a password, it burped and said it didn't recognise the pw. I gave it the pw that I put in in the lppasswd dialog, that you provided above.
And the same user you gave it? It doesn't need to be root.
Check the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf for who is allowed access. It has comments.
For instance:
Why in hell Linux needs a password to print something that can be seen on the screen is absolutely beyond me. And why that password is different from the root pw is even further beyond me.
The password is not for printing. It is for altering printer configuration, for managing the printer. You can see the printers and the pending jobs without password. Why it must be different is explained in the docus and has been comented here on other ocassions - you are of course free to ignore that recomendation, sp if you don't network your cups server. Notice that you can administer the printer as user, too. No need to be root. You should simply click on the "printers" tab, look at your printer, where you might see something like this: lp "Paused" Description: default configuration Location: local Make and Model: Canon BJC-4000 Foomatic/bjc600 (recommended) Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs, published. Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0 Print Test Page *Start Printer* Reject Jobs Move All Jobs Cancel All Jobs Unpublish Printer Modify Printer Set Printer Options Delete Printer Set As Default Set Allowed Users where I have shown the printer as stopped and I would have to click on "Start Printer" to print again. You can also go to the "Job" tabs, and list all pending or completed jobs. You might even reprint and old job. And you have a "Help" tab too. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGF3eOtTMYHG2NR9URAkT5AJ9TiWeF9mZAfP7v4ahk4F17v0BvigCeMBDb ckHLeipquQP32tMjG4X2rJE= =nE/P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org