Re: CUPS doesn't see USB printer after being offline 2 weeks
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:26:50AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > It still shows up in the interface, which is where that error message
> > originates, but CUPS refuses to allow me to change anything, despite my
> > logging in as root under the administrative label.
>
> Add your user to the lpadmin group, and configure CUPS correctly to handle
> authentication of your user and host as required. The CUPS user manual
> explains how to (and it is just like doing the same to apache 1.3...).
I'll look at this, but point out that this problem did not exist
before, including the administrative parts...
BTW, my laser printer still works without problems.
> Meanwhile, try to run "enable <printername>" as root.
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hpotter:/home/daddy# cat /etc/printcap
# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file
# will be lost.
Epson_R300|color printer:rm=hpotter.vaughan.home:rp=Epson_R300:
hplj1200|hplj1200:rm=hpotter.vaughan.home:rp=hplj1200:
hpotter:/home/daddy# enable "Epson_R300"
bash: enable: Epson_R300: not a shell builtin
hpotter:/home/daddy# enable "color printer"
bash: enable: color printer: not a shell builtin
hpotter:/home/daddy#
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Same without the quotes on Epson_R300.
Kenward
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