Please accept my apologies, see:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...9176&highlight
I actually purchased a HP Deskjet 5940 which is listed as 'perfectly' For some reason by the time the printer turned up, I had mixed up the numbers.
So looking at
http://localhost:631
Someone suggested I use lppasswd and look at the man page.
For us newbies: (I'm using Suse 10.0)
I opened a terminal
menu>system>terminal>Gnome
su> my root password.
man lppasswd. Which told me about the command. My normal computer name and password is very simple. The password does not contain any numbers, but my root password is quite tough. So I used an online username and password, as it required some numbers in the password.
lppasswd -a username
Then it asks for the password, and then it asks for it again.
Then when I went to
http://localhost:631 I was able to answer the username and password question and it let me in, although they bear no relevance to any other username or password on my computer.
I configured the printer, as advised (at linux printing) I used Deskjet 990C when it asked me as Deskjet 5940 was not listed.
I had been asked to created a simple text file.
In terminal if you type gedit, it brings up a simple editor.
I typed hello world and clicked on file and saved it as text.tst
In terminal I then typed lp test.txt
The file printed fine. So I am sorted.
Nappy501