Problem: CUPS re-writing printers.conf

[Timothy Murphy]

Richard England wrote:

>>>>>> I am trying to print the CUPS Print Test Page from my laptop
>>>>>> on a printer attached to another machine on my home LAN.
>>>>>> But whenever I do this CUPS adds the line
>>>>>> "AuthInfoRequired username,password" to /etc/cups/printers.conf
>>>>>> on my laptop.
>>>>>> The result is that the job is rejected;

>> When setting up the printer on the laptop,
>> I say that it is a network printer, choose http as the protocol,
>> and give the URI of the printer, in this case
>> http://192.168.2.1:631/printers/HP_LaserJet_5L .

> I may be coming in late on this but my laptop configuration specifies
> 
> ipp://192.168.2.2:631/printers/psc-2400-series
> 
> 192.168.2.2 is configured to host this USB printer locally and it's
> "URL" is
> 
> hp:/usb/psc_2400_series?serial=MY39FD200F8H
> 
> Perhaps you can try using the printer protocol (ipp) instead of http ?

Thanks for your response.
I did try ipp instead of http at one point.
as well as AppSocket/HP JetDirect .
But I think that was when I was using hp-setup.
I'll try it again directly.

I've put in a bug report for this problem,
and been asked to run a diagnostic test, which I have done.


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