[lug] Printing on ubuntu 6.06.1

[D. Stimits]

siegfried wrote:

>I have posted the results at 
>
>http://www.heintze.com/tmp/default.html 
>  
>
Looking at the logs, and at your recent email, it looks like you found 
the answer: It wants authentication. From the logs I believe all of the 
print jobs are still there, cached, ready to print as soon as you figure 
out authentication. Tons of entries like this:
D [18/Feb/2007:07:35:36 -0700] Loading job 20 from cache...

Then, it appears there is an entry for each of those, like this:
D [18/Feb/2007:07:35:40 -0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 5 from localhost (Domain)
D [18/Feb/2007:07:35:40 -0700] cupsdReadClient: 5 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [18/Feb/2007:07:35:40 -0700] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data 
provided.
D [18/Feb/2007:07:35:40 -0700] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [18/Feb/2007:07:35:40 -0700] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=0 
(successful-ok)


You are indeed using IPP protocol, which is an extension to normal HTTP 
web. Probably the printer itself has a web interface which you can 
configure from. Just about every printer using IPP has a default user 
name like "admin" in order to configure things, and most of these come 
with no password initially set, or the password "0". If you have docs, 
find out what IP address or other web interface access method you have 
to reach the configuration web page inside of the printer (I'm not sure 
how one would access a web page on a USB device that isn't a real 
network device). Or maybe look for cups setup for giving a name and pass 
to this IPP printer definition. Notice that in the web interface for 
cups (http://localhost:631) that there is a manage printers section, and 
that IPP printers have a url like this:
http://printer:631/ipp/printers/queue1

I have a feeling that if you get the right url and the name/pass parts, 
it'll work. Just in case it does work, be ready for all those queued 
jobs to perhaps start printing.

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net