cups admin problem with Ubuntu

[kramerjm at gmail.com (James Kramer)]

I have also enabled port 631 on my Asus router firewall.

On 7/4/06, James Kramer <kramerjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried that previously and it does not work.  Sysgroup is lpadmin.  I
> am a member of that group.  This is what is perplexing.  I am editing
> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.  I am assuming that this is the main config
> file.
>
> On 7/4/06, dsr at tao.merseine.nu <dsr at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:46:04AM -0400, James Kramer wrote:
> > > Would someone please suggest solutions to setting up my cups server in
> > > Ubuntu.  I am running Dapper Dan on my laptop and would like to access
> > > my network printer connected to my ASUS router.  I can not set up my
> > > network printer.  I tried to do it using the web based administrator
> > > http://localhost:631
> > > It will not let me do this.  I appears to me the problem is that I
> > > don't have root access since Ubuntu does not enable it.  I previously
> > > had no problems connecting the laptop using Debian.
> >
> > In cupsd.conf, check SystemGroup. Either change it to a group
> > that you are in or add yourself to that group. Now your usual
> > usernam  I e and password will work.
> >
> > I prefer to create a new user "cupsadmin" or the like, rather
> > than using a real password through a web interface, even on my
> > own machine...
> >
> > -dsr-
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