CUPS Printer Problem with HP G55 on USB
I have an HP G55 hooked to usb port 0. All indications are its OK, but test print says it completed successfully but nothing prints. When I go to localhost:631 and select Admin printers and then try to change configuration it asks for a password and ID I use Root and its password but it tells me it cannot authicate it. Where do I grant authority for this. i am new to Linux and am not sure what needs to be done. Any help will be appriciated.
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 22:37, Russbucket wrote:
I have an HP G55 hooked to usb port 0. All indications are its OK, but test print says it completed successfully but nothing prints. When I go to localhost:631 and select Admin printers and then try to change configuration it asks for a password and ID I use Root and its password but it tells me it cannot authicate it. Where do I grant authority for this. i am new to Linux and am not sure what needs to be done.
Any help will be appriciated.
As was pointed out during the install of cups (and on this list several times) you need to run lppasswd -a root Supply a password and you will then be able to make changes. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (6.2)
Russbucket wrote:
I have an HP G55 hooked to usb port 0. All indications are its OK, but test print says it completed successfully but nothing prints. When I go to localhost:631 and select Admin printers and then try to change configuration it asks for a password and ID I use Root and its password but it tells me it cannot authicate it. Where do I grant authority for this. i am new to Linux and am not sure what needs to be done.
Any help will be appriciated.
You should go to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. Read the comments in the file, as the manual says nothing about this issue. You'll have to have CUPS listen to the correct port, and down toward the end, just comment out the lines in the section. That should do the trick for you. Also check out cups.org - they have a mailing list too.
I posted on a similar issue and I do not think it is CUPS related. I have an HP deskjet on USB which worked perfectly on 8.2. I recently upgraded to 9.0 and now have an identical problem. The printer is still working: I have tested it using the script from the SuSE database regarding USB printers - it prints "hello". CUPS did not appear to be installed properly (various configuration scripts report "Yast2..." rather than greyscale etc) but I was unable to change anything. Accordingly I changed to LPRing with no effect. An earlier post on this topic suggested changing permissions on usb0 (I used chmod 666) but to no effect. The person who recommended I use Linux, SuSE in particular, is successfully running 9.0 on the same hardware (same gigabyte motherboard, athlon etc) but using a parallel port HP deskjet. Although I am not an expert, I am speculating that the issue is related to configuration scripts, permissions or similar connecting everything together. This seems to relate to an installation issue arising from the way SuSE has put everything together in relation to USB and kde/kprinter (Though SuSE support has not been forthcoming). If anyone could offer some suggestions I would be grateful. On Tuesday 30 March 2004 04:37, Russbucket wrote:
I have an HP G55 hooked to usb port 0. All indications are its OK, but test print says it completed successfully but nothing prints. When I go to localhost:631 and select Admin printers and then try to change configuration it asks for a password and ID I use Root and its password but it tells me it cannot authicate it. Where do I grant authority for this. i am new to Linux and am not sure what needs to be done.
Any help will be appriciated.
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