I am trying to set up cups (fedora core 6) so that I don't have to manually start the printer every time I reboot.

I looked on the cups web page, and the closest thing I could find was to install the back-end handler (beh), which is running, according to lpinfo -v. But, this didn't do the trick. Is there any way to start a printer (also using HPLIP, etc, and the printer/scanner/etc does work) without having to go to my cups webpage, and re-starting the printer as root?

Thanks for any help.

there are 2 ways for me but as you have a bookmark for cups...go into and look at each printer in turn.....you will see a range of buttons including

set allowed users follow the prompts to add each local user

2) in Mandriva there is also a printer control panel in KDE click on the printer and see who are the allowed users....to change click on Admin button bottom left and passwd and away you go

you will see a range of buttons including
set allowed users follow the prompts to add each local user

I already have us set as users, so I don't think thats the issue..

2) in Mandriva there is also a printer control panel in KDE click on the printer and see who are the allowed users....to change click on Admin button bottom left and passwd and away you go[/QUOTE]

I'll do a little digging (I use Gnome) around some of the printer GUIs and see if there is also a setting in there. Or, probably use KDE just to set it up, but for some reason, I have a problem with KDE (mostly media manager) that I haven't looked into yet.