I recently bought a new printer, and added it to the server (a laptop running Ubuntu 8.04). At first I added it with the Lexmark-supplied install.sh script, but that didn't work so well. But when I used cups to Add Printer, it worked fine. The main client is a Ubuntu 10.04 system, and after I added the new printer (shared via smb) from the printer configuration tool, it too worked.
The only problem was that for every print job from the 10.04 system, I had to supply my password (the job would then print). Today I fixed the problem by going back to the 8.04 system, and via the Cups web interface (localhost:631), I went into Administration, then in the Server section I chose Edit Configuration File. >From there I just changed the <Policy Default> section, the <Limit...> clause, >by deleting *only* the Send-document item, and saved the configuration. From that point on, the 10.04 system did not require me to provide a password when submitting print jobs any more. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627287 Title: Rewrites /etc/cups/printers.conf every night Status in CUPS - Common Unix Printing System: Invalid Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: cups In order to get Kerberos authentication to work for the Windows/Samba printer on my network, I wanted to comment out the AuthInfoRequired line in my printers.conf. However, it turns out that this file gets rewritten periodically; the time stamp suggests this is caused by /etc/logrotate.d/cups The effect is that the printer driver prompts for my user name and password every time I try to print a document. This is mildly annoying (especially because my local user name is different from what I need in the authentication dialog) but acceptable; also, an alternative workaround would be to hard-code my user name and password in the device URI. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Release: 10.04 $ apt-cache policy cups cups: Installed: 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2 Candidate: 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2 Version table: *** 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2 0 500 http://mirrors.nic.funet.fi/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages 500 http://mirrors.nic.funet.fi/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.4.3-1 0 500 http://mirrors.nic.funet.fi/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cups/+bug/627287/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
