Last week I was able to login to http://localhost:631 an manage printers. This week I get error message of Forbidden You don't have permission to access the resource on this server. . I have reset the password but i never see anything asking to login. I have tried this from the server it self an remotely from my workstation. Like I say it was working fine up until this week. Being able to do admin on cups server from any point in the building is very nice an keeps me from having to go to server room an going into yast an seeing what the problem is. At times my users report that they can not print. I login to cups an find that the printer is stopped. just restarting it normally fixes the problem. If someone can help me solve this I would be happy again. On the problem of finding the printer stopped on stumped on why its doing that too. jack
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 10:42 -0600, Jack Malone wrote:
Last week I was able to login to http://localhost:631 an manage printers. This week I get error message of
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access the resource on this server. .
I have reset the password but i never see anything asking to login. I have tried this from the server it self an remotely from my workstation. Like I say it was working fine up until this week. Being able to do admin on cups server from any point in the building is very nice an keeps me from having to go to server room an going into yast an seeing what the problem is. At times my users report that they can not print. I login to cups an find that the printer is stopped. just restarting it normally fixes the problem. If someone can help me solve this I would be happy again. On the problem of finding the printer stopped on stumped on why its doing that too.
jack
Why not use ssh to connect to the box and then use lpstat -t to show the status of all the printers. If one is stopped start with /usr/bin/enable <printer_name>. Did you use lppasswd -g sys <admin_name> to reset the password? Was there a possible syntax error when you reset it? Also try rccups restart to see if that helps. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
jack
Why not use ssh to connect to the box and then use lpstat -t to show the status of all the printers.
Did you use lppasswd -g sys <admin_name> to reset the password? Was there a possible syntax error when you reset it? Also try rccups restart to see if that helps. yes I did use lppasswd -g sys <admin_name> to reset. If you will see in my first message I never get asked to log into the web interface since I first did that before the problem. I have restarted cups with rccups restart an also by killing it with killall cups an restarting it. I might try rebooting the machine but that will require me coming back up after hours to try on saturday or sunday. Plan to do that
I will start using that if I'm at my workstation, but I'm out in the plant in the warehouse I do not have ssh avalible to me on the windows workstations like I do on mine in my office. So the web interface is a nice thing to have an something that my boss can do that is simple when im out of office. He is not linux smart an does not care to know the command line stuff. He barely knows how to shutdown the machine an bring it back up. this sunday or early monday morning before anyone logs into server. Thanks for the help an info Ken, you have been a help to me in past several times an I appreciate it very much. jack
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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Jack Malone wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote
Why not use ssh to connect to the box and then use lpstat -t to show the status of all the printers.
I will start using that if I'm at my workstation, but I'm out in the plant in the warehouse I do not have ssh avalible to me on the windows workstations like I do on mine in my office.
Do you have adminstrator's rights on the MS Windows box? If so you could install "putty". It gives you the equivalent of a remote xterm via ssh. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704
I will start using that if I'm at my workstation, but I'm out in the plant in the warehouse I do not have ssh avalible to me on the windows workstations like I do on mine in my office.
Do you have adminstrator's rights on the MS Windows box? If so you could install "putty". It gives you the equivalent of a remote xterm via ssh. Yes I do have admin rights on them seeing as I'm the admin. I could install that on a few of them. Just never thought of that since the web interface was so easy to use from any browser. Still does not solve the problem of not being able to do that. I'm fixing to remotely log onto the server from home an reboot it an see if that fixes once i'm back in office on monday. hard to reboot during working day with so many people having lots of files on on the server.
jack
Jack Malone wrote:
Last week I was able to login to http://localhost:631 an manage printers. This week I get error message of
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access the resource on this server. Try http://localhost:631/admin I seem to remember this changed quite a while ago, but YMMV. HTH
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871
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