Robin,

I'm not sure this is the definitive answer, but I overcame the problem
by adding my user account to the group 'lp' in
Config>Other>userdrake--erik>edit>groups.  Now all programs are willing
to print for user erik.

HTH.


On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 09:27, robin wrote:
> It turned out my OO problem seems to be a problem with the way it calls 
> lpr - Mozilla does the same. LyX and Kwrite work fine for a normal user, 
> but OO and Moz will still only print as root.  When opened from a 
> terminal, OO gives the error "lpr: unable to create temporary file." 
> Any idea what's causing this?  /tmp is full of files created by LyX but 
> not OO, as far as I can tell.
> 
> Sir Robin



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