Default to A4 paper in OpenOffice with hp deskjet

[Zach]

I do believe that cups requires you to log in as root.  Of course the
root account on ubuntu systems is disabled (specifically, it doesn't
have a valid password), since administration is done with sudo.  I
don't know a way around this  other than to set a password for root.

As far as the problem regarding paper size in this thread, the way I
solved it, as mentioned above, was to reconfigure the papersize
package, specifying the proper paper size, then adding and removing
printers in gnome.

On 11/2/05, 'Forum Post <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
> Carlos Escutia Chávez Wrote:
> > I had this same problem once. What I did to solve it, was configuring
>
> > my printer using cups web management tool. Gnome's printer settings
>
> > didn't help.
>
>
>
> Apparently the CUPS web management is no longer available to us. I went
> to localhost:631/admin and the password dialog came up. I tried several
> times using "root" and my password, and was unable to login. I finally
> hit cancel, and the message reported:
>
>
>
> Cups Web tool Wrote:
> > Administrative commands are disabled in the web interface for security
> > reasons. Please use the GNOME CUPS manager (System > Administration >
> > Printing).
>
>
>
> If I'm reading this right then there's a password built in to prevent
> me from accessing the web management on my computer. My next question
> is how I can get around this...the password must be bypassable if not
> changeable somehow.
>
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