Cannot print to file in Fedora

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at hi.is
Tue Mar 11 10:38:45 UTC 2008


Poxen Studio wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I meet a problem in Fedora 8 (CUPS 1.3.3) and Fedora 7,that is I
> cannot print to file.
> I have add "FileDevice Yes" in cupsd.conf, and restarted the OS.
> I added one Raw printer for File device successfully. When I print to
> it, there is a error message as following:
>
> Unable to open output file "file:/home/swteam/test.prn" - Permission denied.
>
> It can work on SUSE and Ubuntu. So I don't know what happened in
> Fedora? Anybody can give me some comments?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Horky
> 2008-3-11
>
>   
Not that this belongs here..

Are your running SELinux?
If so do set SELinux into permissive mode

You do so by open a termina and run
echo 0 > /selinux/enforce

Then try again to print to a file...

Best regards
                 Johann B.
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