I'm having serious diffculties with my printer, a parallel port LaserJet-6L. I upgrade to Ubuntu Dapper recently and the printer no longer works. The strange thing is that it worked a couple of weeks ago, using the old set up. Then not locally, but through samba, and now not at all, except of course when we hook up the printer to one of the windows machines. But I can't use it through the network in ubuntu.
I've looked in the errors_log and it said that local authorisation could not be found. I looked this up on Google and came up with a launch pad reference which said it this problem was related to samba. The reference was in April and hopefully this was fixed before dapper was officially released. I got a working conf file from a friend and adapted it to my setup. No luck. I uninstalled samba and cupsys and reinstalled it all again. Worse, now apparently I can't install a printer at all. I'm going slightly mad! In the Readme.debian it said that some .cert file could be found in /var/spool/cups/ssl(sic) and symlinks in /etc/cups/ but these files do not exist. Should they or is this only for some special setups? Maybe, in the short term I should downgrade back to breezy. Is it advisable to do this with just the print and samba system? Shelagh *I kiss this e-mail farewell and wish it luck* -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
