On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 06:04 -0700, Chaitanya Krishna A wrote:
hi,
--- Ken Schneider
wrote: Although you can use YaST to configure a printer going through the menus using PrintManager will work.
Did you add a "printer admin" first? You need to add an admin using
lppasswd -a <username> username can be any name but you need to add one first as the root user.
Ya I did add a user using the following command lppasswd -a pringadmin and then gave the passwd. No probs. I invoked the Print Manager again. But still the same problem, as given in the original mail. It still hangs.
Also check if the PrinterManager window has an administrator button. If it does you will need to push that button first in order to add a printer.
I didn't see any button for the administrator on the window. I guess usually the appl asks for the passwd before you can use it, right? Correct me if I am wrong.
If you still have problems let us know.
Kindly go through the other mail I sent to the list regarding the messages in the log of Yast2. I think that may help.
Try re-installing the cups software, especially the ppd rpm. It sounds like that rpm didn't get installed correctly. You can do this by going into YaST add/remove software, search for cups and change the checkmark on the cups packages to a "Z" symbol. This will tell YaST to re-install that package. From the previous errors it appears that there are no ppd definitions installed. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge