mike wrote: > >I have configured my printer using the Mandrake tool, which uses cups (the >test page reports that the printer was set up using cups). > >This is an HP PS500 sitting on a Windows 2000 system, using SAMBA. > >The printer works fine when I am root, but when I am logged on as me, my >requests are ignored (from Netscape, etc.). > >If I do am lpstat, I am prompted for a username and password. > >I have added myself to the lp group, so when I input the username and >password lpstat delivers the information I have requested. > >This also works when I lpr filename. > If lpr filename works as a user (non-root), then your problem shouldn't have anything to do with cups. Check whether you have a file /etc/printcap and whether it is readable by you as a user (non-root). You can tell cups to create that file but it is not needed for cups. On the other hand many applications depend on it to determine which printers are available (although using xpp rather than lpr is much better).
> > >Along with the virtues of being able to print from Netscape, this problem >also seems to be impeding Open Office from working for a user other than root >(it just hangs there, come up fairly quickly from root). > >I have perused the documents, and it appears they have skipped over this very >issue everywhere I look. > Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Assoc. Prof of Mathematics Concordia University College of Alberta http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow
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