Printer setup under Suse 9.1

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:24:04 -0500
Nancy Van Schooenderwoert <vanschoo at acm.org> wrote:

>   I recently installed Suse 9.1 (using KDE) and I want to have it talk
> to the printer on my network. The cups utils are installed via YAST. I
> used the "Print Manager" dialog to do "Add Printer/Class", and
> navigated thru choosing the right printer driver, network address,
> etc. At the end of it all, I tried to save the info but it wouldn't
> accept the user & password I entered. I tried giving it the root user
> & password but it wouldn't take that either. The message is
> "Authentication failed" and it lets me re-try. But it won't take
> anything I enter. What am I doing wrong?
That is a security issue. I ran into the same problem in class last
year. It is well documented. You need to use the lppasswd command:
lppasswd -g sys nancy

An easier way is to just use YaST. YaST can set up your printer for you.

If you need more info, I have detailed info on my classroom slides. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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