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Hi all,
I have a pretty minimal install -- using the "awesome" window manager and no pre-packaged desktop environment -- just a handful of useful applications like opera and evince.
I am trying to set up my printer. It's an HP that plugs into the USB port. I installed cups, added usblp to the modules list in /etc/rc.conf and cups to the daemons list in the same file. So far so good; I can start the browser-based cups config tool at http://localhost:631.
If I go to the Administration tab, the tool will even automatically detect my printer. I choose as the driver for it "HP DeskJet Series, 1.3..." (I have a DeskJet 6540). But then the darn thing asks me for a username and password, and whether I use my personal one or root, it just won't accept it -- keeps asking again and again until finally I hit "cancel" and then it reprimands me for not using a valid username and password...
Thanks for any help.
- Hy
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Have you tried using HPLip?
Don't think I've managed to get an HP printer working without it
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Yeah you need to install hplip in order to obtain the PPD file that CUPS needs in order to get your printer working.
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Thanks -- I haven't. Started to, but if I install it I'm going to get such a barrage of software, and I'm trying to keep it simple... (there are dependencies, and then hplip itself contains support for over 1400 different HP printers -- I just have one...) Meanwhile cups comes with some built-in HP support, I figured I'd give it a go. I would think that I should at least be able to get it working badly, and maybe have to get a new PPD file or install a driver or some such.
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Okay, I installed hplip, same problem.
Suspicion: something is going wrong, and the web-based config tool is assuming it's an authorization problem, but it's not. Any idea how I diagnose further?
Thanks - Hy
More (edit): I turned up logging in cups. It looks like the password checks but maybe the user is not a member of one of the groups "root" or "sys"? Can anyone tell me how to list what groups a user is in from the command line? (can usermod do it?)
Thanks again.
Last edited by Hy Ginsberg (2008-08-27 00:06:24)
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Got it.
1) List the groups a user belongs to with the command "groups"....
2) Use:
usermod -a -G sys hy
(if your username happens to be "hy", which would be quite a coincidence), BUT first you have to log out and log back in as root or it won't take -- just prefixing a "sudo" to the above command will appear to work without actually adding the group.
3) Use the cups web tool to add the printer...
Thanks all.
(I see that posts get marked "[SOLVED]" in the title -- am I supposed to do that somehow -- I don't see how...)
- Hy
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