[lug] Printing on ubuntu 6.06.1

siegfried siegfried at heintze.com
Mon Feb 19 09:59:11 MST 2007


>Couple common solutions I've seen in the past for this type of problem:
>
>Permissions: Go to web interface at http://localhost:631 and select the
>Printers tab.  Click the "Set Allowed Users" button for the G85 printer
>listing then make sure the "Users:" field is empty, check the "Prevent
>these users from printing" radio button and then the "Set Allowed Users"
>button again.

I'm getting a prompt for username and password and it is not accepting
the single username/password. Do I need to enable the root account
which ubuntu has disabled by default?


>
>Options: Check the "Set Printer Options" for this printer and ensure the
>choices all look sane/correct.
>
>Restart daemon: "/etc/init.d/cupsd restart". Cups seems to have
>mysterious fits if the printer isn't connected and powered on when the
>cupsd daemon started.
>
>Restart printer: Use the "Stop Printer", "Start Printer" buttons in the
>web interface to stop and restart the print queue.
>
>-Ken
>




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