[breezy] Printer stopped working

[Vayu]

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 22:42, aprestn5 at telus.net wrote:
> 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.

That is strange.  Both my Kubuntu and my FreeBSD boxes needed root password, 
but since I have a root account on FreeBSD I could just use the root 
password.  On Kubuntu I had to alter the cupsd.conf to not have it 
passworded.  (I got the information from somewhere on the Ubuntu forums)





>   
> > 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
> > 
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> >