[plug] CUPS and Shared Network Printer

I am the LinuxAlien linuxalien at optusnet.com.au
Mon Jan 20 15:13:21 WST 2003


Thanks To all who replied. I have now got it working under lpadmin. I will 
see about it working under KDE when I can login locally (I am puttying in 
from the printers computer)
I am using the 1250 driver and it works fine even at max res. Thanks Again
Tim
At 08:00 20/01/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>>I tried many users including Power Users, Administrators and guest but it 
>>kept denying access. I havn't yet had time to google for drivers but I 
>>can't understand the password bit. I can connect fine when i boot into 
>>w2k with my normal user name and password. I am using Deb.
>
>Is it possible that the interface actually wants your local system's root 
>password so that it can change the CUPS server settings?
>
>You didn't post the exact words of the error message, so I'm just guessing 
>here.
>
>Consider configuring CUPS using "lpadmin" or the web-based admin tool on 
>http://localhost:631/ instead, see if you have any more luck with that.
>
>Craig
>

LinuxAlien

Riverton, Perth, WA



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