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absolutezero1287

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Registered: 2008-11-13

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[SOLVED]Hplip, F4280, and CUPS issues

I can't seem to access the CUPS web interface. http://localhost:631/
I've configured my printer to work in Ubuntu and thats how I got it to work before. But for some reason Firefox won't load the page.

I got Xsane and its able to identify my printer however when scans don't come out as they should. They get cut off.
EDIT: Reinstalled xsane and deleted its preferences. PEBCAK

Last edited by absolutezero1287 (2009-01-26 21:48:54)

josomebody

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Registered: 2008-06-20

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Re: [SOLVED]Hplip, F4280, and CUPS issues

Did you run /etc/rc.d/cups start ?
Also if you can't get the scanner working, I had to edit /etc/sane.d/hp4200.conf thusly:

usb 0x03f0 0x2504 /dev/par0

Hope that helps some. I just got the same printer a couple of days ago and after that tweak it worked fine. Pretty sure that's all I did.

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absolutezero1287

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Re: [SOLVED]Hplip, F4280, and CUPS issues

Did something weird in Xsane's config. I reinstalled Xsane and deleted its preferences folder and everything's working fine now.
Also, starting the CUPS daemon did the trick for the web interface. In hindsight, I should've added cups to the rc.conf.
Thank you!

Something strange going on with the web interface, though. Its not adding printers. I go to the "find new printers" section and choose my printer. Once I'm prompted for my password I type my user name and pass and it just prompts me again. I try using root as username and then my root pass and the page just goes blank. I've also tried just putting the password. The page just always goes blank.

Last edited by absolutezero1287 (2009-01-18 18:58:29)

absolutezero1287

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Re: [SOLVED]Hplip, F4280, and CUPS issues

Bump.
Can anyone help? I really need to use my printer but the cups web interface is giving me headaches.

Update: The issue seems to be with authenticication. I used system-config-printer this time instead of CUPS web interface. I'm getting an "incorrect password" error but I'm typing the password perfectly. What could be the issue?

Please help

Last edited by absolutezero1287 (2009-01-26 20:34:55)

ras0ir

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Re: [SOLVED]Hplip, F4280, and CUPS issues

Are you typing your user's password or root password?

According to the wiki: ( http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS )

For system-config-printer to work as it should you may run as root or with sudo/gksudo, or alternatively set up a "normal" user to administer cups (if so follow steps 1-3)

    * 1. Create group, and add a user

# groupadd lpadmin
# usermod -aG lpadmin <username>
    *  2. Add "lpadmin" (without the quotes) to this line in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

SystemGroup sys root <insert here>

    * 3. Restart cups, log out and in again (or restart your computer)

# /etc/rc.d/cups restart

Last edited by ras0ir (2009-01-26 21:00:08)

absolutezero1287

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Re: [SOLVED]Hplip, F4280, and CUPS issues

Thank you very much! That did the trick.