On Saturday 25 November 2006 20:50, Doug McGarrett wrote: > I get a message to put in my username and pasword. I have only used > a couple of usernames and basically one password for everything, but > this site doesn't like any combination I can come up with. Now what?
Hi Doug, Here's what I think may be a related item from my personal 'hardware tips' archive: > As root, in a console run "lppasswd -a <username>", resulting in a prompt > for a password followed by a prompt to verify it. The password must be 6 > characters long and must contain at least one letter and one number. > > Then, as that user, connect to the cupsd admin port, http://localhost:631. > (It is not necessary to restart cups after creating the cups account for > this user.) Click on "Printers", black button along the top row of the > page. Find the appropriate printer, and click on the "Configure printer" > button; you will be prompted for a username/password, which you have just > added with lppasswd. Once you are authenticated, confirm/adjust your > printer settings and click "Continue" to finish the task. hth & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
