[Gllug] Re: usb printing nightmare

[Gary Pownall]

Your point is well made and thanks for your efforts.  BTW my friend has a 
Ubuntu box and an Epson Printer which most definitely is compatible but he 
also could not print through usb so I'm inclined to think it's something a 
little more sinister.

Gary

>From: John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk>
>Reply-To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
>To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Gllug] Re: usb printing nightmare
>Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:26:46 +0100
>
>On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 18:01 +0000, Gary Pownall wrote:
> > 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.
>
>Have you established that the HP Digital Copier 410 is Linux-compatible?
>I had a look on HP's web site but could find no technical information
>about it - just drivers for various flavours of Windows.  There isn't
>even anything for MacOS (any flavour), which doesn't bode well.  If the
>unit is a WinPrinter and HP doesn't provide documentation for it then
>there's nothing anyone can do.  This is HP's fault - not Linux's.
>
>On the business of being unable to get authorised for CUPS - have you
>tried checking the logs to see there's any explanation there of what is
>stopping you logging on?  I'm afraid that the most likely explanation is
>that you haven't quite followed the instructions correctly (see "man
>lppasswd") or you're not entering quite the same user id and password.
>
>HTH
>John
>
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