[opensuse] cups help needed
Hello SuSE people, I installed 10.3 on my son's computeerr today. He finally got sick of windoze. All is well except for his printer. It is an MFC3420C. One of those all in one things and is a couple of years old. Went to brother site and downloaded the driver and a cupswrapper and installed them successfully. Followed the install instructions carefully and can see the printer in localhost:631. cups is not seeing the printer I guess because it is not printing. However, the install instructions say I must add the user and password to cups. Here is part of the install instruction and am not sure that is required to make it work. ----------------------- Note for SuSE Users: If you are using a later version of SuSE than version 9.0, set the 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. Help please? Step by step for the ignorant please? Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Bob S <911@sanctum.com> wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I installed 10.3 on my son's computeerr today. He finally got sick of windoze. All is well except for his printer. It is an MFC3420C. One of those all in one things and is a couple of years old. Went to brother site and downloaded the driver and a cupswrapper and installed them successfully.
Followed the install instructions carefully and can see the printer in localhost:631. cups is not seeing the printer I guess because it is not printing.
However, the install instructions say I must add the user and password to cups. Here is part of the install instruction and am not sure that is required to make it work. ----------------------- Note for SuSE Users: If you are using a later version of SuSE than version 9.0, set the 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.
Help please? Step by step for the ignorant please?
Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Quote: set the password for CUPS using the lppasswd command:#lppasswd -g sys -a root So open a shell, or hit CTRL-ALT-F2 (or something) and log in as root. Then tyoe the command lppasswd -g sys -a root -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0805220134580.29732@nimrodel.valinor> The Wednesday 2008-05-21 at 19:27 -0400, Bob S wrote:
However, the install instructions say I must add the user and password to cups. Here is part of the install instruction and am not sure that is required to make it work. ----------------------- Note for SuSE Users: If you are using a later version of SuSE than version 9.0, set the 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. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFINLIStTMYHG2NR9URAoXMAJ0cNO8cKgIZx6ZggX0BI9a576jOdgCgkq+2 N3nzcQt3rKeri2itOex8d3c= =PqDZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 07:36:47 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2008-05-21 at 19:27 -0400, Bob S wrote:
However, the install instructions say I must add the user and password to cups. Here is part of the install instruction and am not sure that is required to make it work. ----------------------- Note for SuSE Users: If you are using a later version of SuSE than version 9.0, set the 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. 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? 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" 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 ? Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----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-----
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I installed 10.3 on my son's computeerr today. He finally got sick of windoze. All is well except for his printer. It is an MFC3420C. One of those all in
MFC3420C Which manufacturer is that? Help us out here, Bob. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Washington Irving <washton.irving@gmail.com> wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I installed 10.3 on my son's computeerr today. He finally got sick of windoze. All is well except for his printer. It is an MFC3420C. One of those all in
MFC3420C
Which manufacturer is that?
Its a Brother, which can be troublesome. Sometimes Brother printers are very windows specific. In which case you can sometimes get them to work by sending print thru a windows machine with the smb backend for CUPS. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Washington Irving <washton.irving@gmail.com> wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I installed 10.3 on my son's computeerr today. He finally got sick of windoze. All is well except for his printer. It is an MFC3420C. One of those all in MFC3420C
Which manufacturer is that?
Its a Brother, which can be troublesome.
Sometimes Brother printers are very windows specific. In which case you can sometimes get them to work by sending print thru a windows machine with the smb backend for CUPS.
Go to the brother site. http://www.brother-usa.com/ http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download_top.html?reg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc3420c_us Look on the left, under Notes/Information, where it says "For Linux Users" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 08:52:29 pm Washington Irving wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Washington Irving
<washton.irving@gmail.com> wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I installed 10.3 on my son's computeerr today. He finally got sick of windoze. All is well except for his printer. It is an MFC3420C. One of those all in
MFC3420C
Which manufacturer is that?
Its a Brother, which can be troublesome.
Sometimes Brother printers are very windows specific. In which case you can sometimes get them to work by sending print thru a windows machine with the smb backend for CUPS.
Go to the brother site.
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download_top.h tml?reg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc3420c_us
Look on the left, under Notes/Information, where it says "For Linux Users"
I've been to that site and to every link that is associated with it. Spent hours going over it. That is where I got the install instructions. Thanks for trying to help anyway. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bob S wrote:
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 08:52:29 pm Washington Irving wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Washington Irving
<washton.irving@gmail.com> wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I installed 10.3 on my son's computeerr today. He finally got sick of windoze. All is well except for his printer. It is an MFC3420C. One of those all in MFC3420C
Which manufacturer is that? Its a Brother, which can be troublesome.
Sometimes Brother printers are very windows specific. In which case you can sometimes get them to work by sending print thru a windows machine with the smb backend for CUPS. Go to the brother site.
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download_top.h tml?reg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc3420c_us
Look on the left, under Notes/Information, where it says "For Linux Users"
I've been to that site and to every link that is associated with it. Spent hours going over it. That is where I got the install instructions. Thanks for trying to help anyway.
My Brother MFC 5440 CN installed very easily. The only problem was I had to make a symbolic link in the 64-bit library directory (/var/lib64?) to ../lib/some_file_here I'm not sure exactly why...but as soon as I did, everything worked.
Bob S
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On Wednesday 21 May 2008 08:28:42 pm Washington Irving wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I installed 10.3 on my son's computeerr today. He finally got sick of windoze. All is well except for his printer. It is an MFC3420C. One of those all in
MFC3420C
Which manufacturer is that?
Help us out here, Bob.
Sorry Aaron, It is a Brother, The next line in the post says," Went to brother site and downloaded the driver and a cupswrapper and installed them successfully." Should have been more specific with the make of printer. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bob S wrote:
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 08:28:42 pm Washington Irving wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I installed 10.3 on my son's computeerr today. He finally got sick of windoze. All is well except for his printer. It is an MFC3420C. One of those all in MFC3420C
Which manufacturer is that?
Help us out here, Bob.
Sorry Aaron,
It is a Brother, The next line in the post says," Went to brother site and downloaded the driver and a cupswrapper and installed them successfully."
Sorry about that... I was distracted when I read your message. I'll read more carefully next time.
Should have been more specific with the make of printer.
Well, looking back at your OP, you were fairly obvious, other than not capitalizing Brother... the word brother just just didn't stand out without the capitalization. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On May 21 19:27 Bob S wrote (shortened):
I installed 10.3 ... MFC3420C ... Went to brother site and downloaded the driver and a cupswrapper and installed them successfully. ... However, the install instructions say I must add the user and password to cups. Here is part of the install instruction and am not sure that is required to make it work. ----------------------- Note for SuSE Users: If you are using a later version of SuSE than version 9.0, set the 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. --------------------------
See http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell --------------------------------------------------------------------- Up to SUSE LINUX 10.1 we provided CUPS 1.1 and since openSUSE 10.2 we provide CUPS 1.2 which is not fully backward compatible with CUPS 1.1. ... For example RunAsUser is no longer supported so that since openSUSE 10.2 / CUPS 1.2 the cupsd runs as root and therefore we are back to its default "basic authentication" via system users and system passwords (in /etc/shadow). Therefore the Support Database article "Printer Configuration from SUSE LINUX 9.0 on" http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printer_Configuration_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.0_on is partially outdated since openSUSE 10.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Regrarding Brother MFC devices and their drivers see http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/LinuxSupportByPrint... ------------------------------------------------------ Useless Brother MFC Devices ------------------------------------------------------ and http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/BrotherFAQ#How_well... ------------------------------------------------------ Brother also makes a line of multifunction devices (fax/copier/scanner/printers) which do not work well or at all. Standard documentation is not posted on the Brother website; developers have reported that Brother is not willing to provide unencumbered MFC programming information. ------------------------------------------------------ This means that when you buy a Brother MFC device, you are bound to their driver, how they provide it, and how they support it. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex
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