On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:02:52PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > Thanks for answer. > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:08:07PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > > > > > > > I had problem with cups: > > > > Please don't break the text in you message into blocks by placing "--" > > between the blocks. Some mail user agents (e.g. mutt) interpret this > > as the start of a signature. It makes it difficult to incorporate the > > text of your message in the reply. > > I am really sorry. > > > > > > During the installation I got the following message: > > > > > > "cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - > > > exiting" > > > > > > and there is no file cupsd.conf in /etc/cups/. > > > > > > > > > Then when I connect (using mozilla) to > > > http://localhost:631/ > > > > > > and then try to choose "Do Administration Tasks" or "Printers" > > > I got : > > > "Alert! The connection was refused when attempting to contact > > > localhost:631." > > > > Connecting to http://localhost:631 will only work if cupsd daemon is > > running. You will not be able to use web interface to administer your > > printers until you get the daemon to run. Until then, you can > > administer printers with the lpadmin program. Make yourself a member > > of the "lpadmin" group to be able to administer printers without > > becoming root. > I think it is a bug in dselect or in cupsys debian package. > I used 'dpkg -i cupsys...' > and the package and cupsys-client and cups-bsd were installed. > > How one can make a user a member of the 'lpadmin' group?
# adduser your_userID lpadmin > > Still have problem: > When I use the printer from NON-root account it seems that > the configuration of the printer is NOT OK. > E.g. when I print some picture (region filled with gray colour) > it is printed as black but from the root account it is printed OK. That sounds like a permission problem, i.e. permission or ownership of some directory is not set properly, or user needs to be added to some group to get write access priviledges to a device. You have not mentioned anything about installing drivers for your printer. You probably need to install one of these packages: 1) cupsys-driver-gimpprint, 2) foomatic-bin and foomatic-db, or 3) cupsomatic-ppd. Do you have libcupsys2 and gs-esp installed? Which version of debian/GNU are you using? > I use gv to print postscript files and acrobat to print pdf files. > The command for printing is lp or lpr: both work in strange way > described above. > BUT I noticed that when I use KGhostview instead of gv to print .ps > files from non-root account the picture with gray filling is printed OK. > In KGhostview I can choose in print dialog window cups or lprng and so on. > Of course I choose cups system. > > It seems that gv and acrobat are not aware of cups system in non-root > account. > > Any clue? > > Jan > > > > > /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is in the cupsys package. It doesn't sound like > > your installation is complete. Check this by running "dpkg -s cupsys". > > > > -- Jerome
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