F9 - cups - windows shared printer

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 15:58 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 22:52 +0000, g wrote:
> > Craig White wrote:
> > <snip>
> > 
> > 
> >   On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 21:21 +0000, g wrote:
> > >> Craig White wrote:
> > >> <snip>
> > >>> I hope that you won't mind that I will continue to ignore your
> > >>> suggestions thinking that they are not useful and even if they worked,
> > >>> that isn't the intended behavior and thus no solution at all.
> > >> not at all. what ever churns your butter.
> > >>
> > >> if such an easy change is too much for you, then do not. after all it
> > >> is your system to fight with.
> > >>
> > >> as for me, i did spend a couple minutes to make change, as i found thru
> > >> google, and it did work. granted, it may something different in your
> > >> system.
> > >>
> > >> i do know/recall that i did have to add myself to 'lp' group, under
> > >> mandrake 9 and 10, when i could not print as a 'user', but could as
> > >> 'root'.
> > > ----
> > 
> > > I would rather remove the line once in a while than start mucking with
> > > system groups but more to the point and the one you seem to be missing
> > > is that the bandaid approach you suggest helps no one else. I'm far more
> > > interested in a real solution to the problem because others are sure to
> > > experience this issue.
> > 
> > i am in full understanding of your reasoning and desire to find *where*
> > failure is coming from.
> > 
> > with no more response than you have of one other poster so far, would
> > this not tend to show that it would be something you 2 have in common
> > in configuring your system? granted, it is something that should not
> > happen. but it is.
> > 
> > therefore i would think that you and andy need to see what you have in
> > common in setups, permissions, and paths, etc.
> > 
> > also, a request for others who are using cups, if they would check
> > cupsd.conf and printers.conf files to see if authentication line
> > is present.
> > 
> > then, if you have a large response of line present, you have narrowed
> > you search to other than just cups.
> > 
> > just a suggestion. use it or not.
> ----
> Not a chance...
> 
> because I reverted to distribution version of cupsd.conf and have only 2
> printers configured and the configuration is fairly basic.
> 
> I put in a bugzilla report.
> 
> I know that Tim Waugh usually monitors this list but guess he must be on
> a summer vacation because he is the master of all things printers on
> RH/Fedora.
> 
> We'll get to the bottom of it - and I'm pretty patient and suspect that
> Tim will sound off in a few days.
> 
> Craig
Tim may be an expert but for instructions in configuring cupsd.cong the
documentation you can access through the cups web page (localhost:631)
is really very good and definitive. I would try that if I were you.
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