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Re: [LUG] Permissions problem

 

Robin Cornelius wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:57 AM, NW <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> looked at the printer details and there was a message which read ...
>> Unable to open device file "dev/lp0": Permission denied
>>
>> so I changed the permissions as I said and then I could print OK.
>>
> 
> Sounds like cups does not have correct permissions to conncet to lp, i
> would have though user "cups" needs to be in the lp group but no other
> users, they need to be in the cups group. Was cups installed via a
> distro package? as it really should have done this for you, or what
> ever is approprate for your distro.
> 
> Robin
> 
There is no user called cups. What puzzles me is that it was all working
fine until yesterday. I have had the same printer ever since I had this
desktop computer and it was all working fine. And I have not made any
changes as far as I know.

Neil

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