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Are you running cups?
If not, you should be.
Turn your printer on.
Then put this into your browser:http://localhost:631/
Click on Do Administration Tasks. Login as root.
Click Add Printer and away you go.
Originally posted by tredegar Are you running cups?
If not, you should be.
Turn your printer on.
Then put this into your browser:http://localhost:631/
Click on Do Administration Tasks. Login as root.
Click Add Printer and away you go.
Yes, I am running cups but cannot print in KDE apps, only firefox, but the test print in the KPrint setup works. I cannot print in Kword or a simple text file. Could it have something to do with permission? although I dont get any messages about user restrictions
that's weird
(class is a c++ structural thingy)
there are cups user restrictions possible
look at /etc/cups/printers.conf
as root try commands like
lpadmin -p <printername> -u allow:all
or
lpadmin -p <printername> -u deny:none
or
lpadmin -p <printername> -o requesting-user-name-allowed=all
or
lpadmin -p <printername> -o requesting-user-name-denied=none
With SuSE 9.3, I had a problem with permissions, because cups doesn't run as root. Using the "lppasswd" program, I added my username and password. Then when the cups requester for user/password came up I gave this information. I had used "kdesu konqueror http://localhost:631" to be able to write the config files as root however.
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