Configuring a printer on a server without a GUI

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Nov 12 09:11:32 UTC 2014


On 11/11/2014 10:55 PM, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 17:10 -1000, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> On 11/11/2014 02:53 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 11/12/14 08:41, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> cupsctl _remote_admin=1
>>>>
>>>> Is not enough.
>>> Add -U root to that command
>> tried
>>
>> cupsctl _remote_admin=1 -U root
>>
>> And still Forbidden.
>>
>> My notebook and the server are on different subnets.
> For reference what you want is:
>
> cupsctl -U root --remote-admin
>
> or just
>
> su -c 'cupsctl --remote-admin'

I did try this and it wasn't until I also did

cupsctl _remote_any=1

That it worked.




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