Re: [Sheflug] New HP Deskjet 3940 printer

[Peter Collier <pecb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 9:36 am, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 15:59:14 J Simpson V21 wrote:
> > I am using Suse 10.0. It's a dual boot machine with windows 98. Finally,
> > found time to boot into windows. The printer works fine, very quick,
> > printed me a couple of pears.
>
> Hope they tasted good :-)
>
> > Nothing happened at the printer.
> > So I checked printer jobs and several jobs were queued.
> > I went into printer manager.
> > Said stopped (accepting jobs)
> > When I do start/stop printer it asks for an authorization with admin and
> > password. It puts in janet, but the password I use normally does not
> > work.
>
> Something seems to be wrong with the way you have access control set up in
> YaST. Perhaps someone else hereabouts knows more about this - I run Gentoo
> here. On the other hand, I think I have a SuSE installation DVD - if I get
> a chance I'll try installing it somewhere and see what I can make of it.
>
> > However, in manage printer I can be in administrator mode with my root
> > password. So I was able to get test.txt to print. I'm not sure why it is
> > doing that now.
>
> Well, as you know, root can do anything. But of course you don't want to
> have to be root to print.
>
> > It printed 26 sheets of paper with:
> > $ $? $ $?? $ $?? ?? etc for a line on two pages, third page had on the
> > far right hand side near the bottom corner, 3 diamonds and 3 clubs. Then
> > 9 blank pages before anymore characters, etc.
>
> Is this the output from your "hello world" file?
>
> > When I go to: http://localhost:631/printers
> > I get asked for username and password at CUPS
> > I'd tried various things that do not work.
>
> It should just be your root account.
>

The Cups password is different from the system or user password. I remember a 
mention of this on the SuSE users mail group and it tells you how to sort it 
out but I haven't found it as yet. Not sure if it's something todo with 
lpprinter psword.

Peter C.

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