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terrybull

Member

Registered: 2011-11-06

Posts: 127

CUPS 1.3.10 willnot give me admin access

I am trying to install my HP 920c printer in Slitaz 3. I have added CUPS via the detect hardware and ticked printer and it installed CUPS 1.3.10. When I go to add printer it detects my printer connected via usb but then asks a username and password. I have tried my user name and password and adim password but it will not accept any.

I also know my printer should be in lp group with 666 permissions but this means nothing to me. Can anyone help please.

Thanks

Guest

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Re: CUPS 1.3.10 willnot give me admin access

Have you tried root and root for username and password?

terrybull

Member

Registered: 2011-11-06

Posts: 127

Re: CUPS 1.3.10 willnot give me admin access

Yes. I have tried all I can think of. Every combination possible. There is something blocking access.

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: CUPS 1.3.10 willnot give me admin access

Follow directions here to start/verify cupsd is running and how to access Cups admin with a web browser.

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/new-iso-slitaz-rolling-core64-at-httpdownloadtuxfamilyorgslitazisorolling?view=all#post-38971

terrybull

Member

Registered: 2011-11-06

Posts: 127

Re: CUPS 1.3.10 willnot give me admin access

I followed this guide and it did not work. However after a lot a headscratching and hours of trying and searching I finally got the printer to work. It was accessing the admin page of cups that was so hard to achieve. It seems this is quite a common problem and its really hard for non expert users like me to resolve. In the end I tried so many things I'm not actually sure how I managed it but I think it was editing the etc/cups conf file. I will try and work through exactly what I did. It has taken me a couple of years to actually print from Slitaz 3. Why is it so hard?

Anyway thanks Mojo