[lug] Printing on ubuntu 6.06.1

[Ken MacFerrin]

siegfried wrote:
>> 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?
> 

Look in your cupsd.conf file for something like this:
   "SystemGroup lpadmin"

Then make sure to add your user to /etc/group for the group listed (in
my case it's the lpadmin group).  This should now allow cups admin
access using your login username/passwd for that user (may need to reboot).

Also, look at the following parameters in cupsd.conf to see if they
match up with what's listed here.

# Enable printer sharing and shared printers.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow @LOCAL
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
DefaultAuthType Basic
<Location />
  # Allow shared printing and remote administration...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
</Location>
<Location /admin>
  Encryption Required
  # Allow remote administration...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
</Location>
<Location /admin/conf>
  AuthType Basic
  Require user @SYSTEM
  # Allow remote access to the configuration files...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
</Location>

-Ken