***SPAM***cups is driving me crazy . . .

[Tom Wilson]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 06:47, dep wrote:
> . . . okay, it's a short trip, within walking distance.
> 
> anyway. i had cups working perfectly on my suse 8.2 installation when 
> hard drive problems forced a reinstall from scratch, so i went to 9.1. 
> now i can get the suse configurator to sort of set up cups, to the 
> point of printing its own test page but nothing else. this is 
> unsurprising; in my experience the yast tools have never worked for 
> printers. so i tried what usually does work, which is using the cups 
> web interface. only now, when it prompts me for a password for root, it 
> will not accept the root password. i can su root in a terminal just 
> fine, so it's not a password problem. and if i go to the configurator 
> as root -- through, say, lynx in a terminal -- it *still* prompts me 
> for a password and the root password is not what it wants. i gather 
> that for some security reason cups has been tightened, but if i cannot 
> get in it has been tightened a tad too much.
> 
> anybody kept up on what's been done with cups such that i can figure out 
> the password so i can get in so i can configure my printer so i cna 
> print?
> 
> thanky.

I'm using 9.1 myself and printing via a yast setup is fine.  My printers
are networked via hp jetdirect boxes.  Don't know if that makes a
difference vs a local printer setup or anything else.  

I also heard that you can use lppasswd to set the password to manage
cups/printing in suse.  I haven't tried it myself as yast worked fine.  

Tom Wilson 
McSwain Carpets 
513.771.1400 x4433 
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