On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 22:06 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > I had my HP970Cxi working, then it failed. I managed to install it again, > once, and it successfgully printed a test page, but nothing since. I decided > to remove it, and start over. Now when I get up to the window that says > "settings" and "print test page" or something like that, I select letter > size, and then go to test, and a little "Authentication - KDE Daemon" window > opens in the bottom tool bar. I snap on that, and it asks me for a password. > > I have never used more than one password on this machine, but the Daemon > won't take that password. What do I do now? If I can't have a printer work > in Linux, I will have no choice but to go back to Windows, even the miserable > Windows 98, which I at least have the software for, somewhere. Don't send me > anything I have to print out to learn--I can't print anything at the moment, > and the Windows machine is totally kaput right now. As you can see, it's > hair-tearing time on Long Island!
As the user root: lppasswd -a -g sys some_user_name input the password twice and you're good to go. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
