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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list