[breezy] Printer stopped working

[aprestn5 at telus.net]

Quoting vayu <vayu at sklinks.com>:

> 
> On May 16, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 21:01, Alastair Preston wrote:
> >
> >>> Status right now is that the printer is flagged as "Status: stopped
> >>> (accepting jobs)" in the kprinter-dialog.
> >>
> >> Go into CUPS configuration (http://localhost:631) and restart the  
> >> printer.
> >
> > Well, I can't do that. I requires a login, and it's not accepting  
> > my usual
> > username/password. How do I set one in CUPS (without resorting to  
> > reading
> > long man-pages and command-prompts.)?
> 
> 
> That page requires an actual root password (not even sudo will work). 

Not on either my Kubuntu box or my Mandriva box - I checked it out prior to 
posting my earlier reply.
  
> Search the forums. There's a cups configuration file entry where you  
> can set it to not require a password.
> 
> The file is /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
> I can't remember but I think under the heading:
> <Location /admin>
> 
> that I commented (by putting a # in front of) the two lines:
> AuthType Basic
> AuthClass System
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > BUT the solution I've used was to install Gnome-Cups-manager and  
> > start it with
> > sudo. Then I can restart the printer. Is there a KDE-equivalent?
> >
> > Another BUT. Something is not right with cupsd. After printing a  
> > testpage,
> > cupsd just hung at 100% cpu. Killing the process and restarting  
> > cupsd, the
> > testpage got printed again. Weird.
> >
> > Bjarne
> >
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