[Gllug] Re: usb printing nightmare

[Gary Pownall]

Many thanks for your help Colin.  Tried what you suggested and was able to 
set up username and password for printmanager.  Unfortunately when I try to 
configure cups through localhost:631 I still get a dialogue box asking for 
username and password.

Despite inputting the new username and password, I still keep being asked 
for username and password.

I am really getting pissed off with this now, it's not as if it's unique to 
ubuntu either, when I plugged my usb printer (HP digital copier 410) into a 
mandrake box, I still couldn't print with it.

The system is detecting the printer so I know that there's data traffic 
being sent along the usb port, but when it comes to transmitting data, it 
kind of gets 'blocked' mid-way through, or at least that's how it seems.

How can Linux purport itself to be a viable contender to windows when you 
have to deal with all this CRAP!!! just to get it to something as 
fundamental as printing?

Incidentally i never had all this trouble when I had my Epson color stylus 
880 connected via the parellel port.  That worked 'out of the box' but this 
is just driving me mad!

>From: Colin Murphy <Colin at spudulike.me.uk>
>Reply-To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
>To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Gllug] Re: usb printing nightmare
>Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:23:27 +0100
>
>On Friday 22 July 2005 16:00, Gary Pownall wrote:
> > Hi Mark
> >
> > Tried what you suggested but Ubuntu disables configurnig cups through 
>web
> > interface.  It keeps asking for username and password.  Obviously I've
> > tried root and root's password but to no avail.
> >
> > Many thanks for your efforts though, at least now I know about
> > localhost:631.
> >
>
>To get round this you need to investigate the lppasswd. So, as root:-
>
>linux:/ # lppasswd -a printermanager
>
>and you'll be prompted to enter a password that you want to use for the 
>user
>'printermanager'.  The name of the user can be anything you want,
>'printermanager' is just my example.
>
>lppasswd needs to be used in Suse and I now see that it needs to be used in
>Ubuntu.  Other distro's don't come with this handicap, or, at least, they
>come configured to work without lppasswd somehow.  Can anyone tell me why
>this is?
>
>
>--
>Colin Murphy - Colin at SpudULike.me.uk
>
>A:Because it's wrong.
> > Q:Why shouldn't I 'top post' a reply?
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