Re: lpadmin Password
Sev, You are not alone. I get the same run-around when trying to adjust a Canon printer's settings, except that the requested change does not happen at the end. Does anyone know how to find out who are the members of the lpadmin group, and how do I become a member of that group? The setup: MacPro5,1 - 2.8GHz; MacOS 10.6.5; Canon imageRunner 330s - Gutenprint v5.2.3; Ethernet connection On 24/12/2010, at 11:00 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I have 10.5.8 on a G5 and I tried to pause an attached printer. I got a message Type the password of a user in the lpadmin group to allow Fuji-Xerox ..app to make changes On entering my usual name and password I got an invalid entry message. After three goes it said too many tries, try again later then went ahead and paused the printer anyway. This is a recent phenomenon, I have paued printers without a problem many times in the past. Help please Severin Crisp Happy Christmas to all, just one hour to go! Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Ray Forma 50 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159, Australia Tel +61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: lpadmin Password
Hi Severin Ray, The solution is to make the admin group, which usually has your user account as a member, a member of the lpadmin group 1. Open the Terminal application, located in Applications Utilities, and type the following (or copy and paste the following line into Terminal) dseditgroup -o edit -p -a admin -t group _lpadmin 2. Then press the Enter key. 3. You will be prompted for your password. Enter your password and you should see a message about a change was made. 4. Quit Terminal 5. Restart the computer and printer. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 15/01/2011, at 8:49 AM, Ray Forma wrote: Sev, You are not alone. I get the same run-around when trying to adjust a Canon printer's settings, except that the requested change does not happen at the end. Does anyone know how to find out who are the members of the lpadmin group, and how do I become a member of that group? The setup: MacPro5,1 - 2.8GHz; MacOS 10.6.5; Canon imageRunner 330s - Gutenprint v5.2.3; Ethernet connection On 24/12/2010, at 11:00 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I have 10.5.8 on a G5 and I tried to pause an attached printer. I got a message Type the password of a user in the lpadmin group to allow Fuji-Xerox ..app to make changes On entering my usual name and password I got an invalid entry message. After three goes it said too many tries, try again later then went ahead and paused the printer anyway. This is a recent phenomenon, I have paued printers without a problem many times in the past. Help please Severin Crisp Happy Christmas to all, just one hour to go! Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: lpadmin Password
Thanks Ronni, for your usual insightful response. It worked! Severin On 15/01/2011, at 9:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Severin Ray, The solution is to make the admin group, which usually has your user account as a member, a member of the lpadmin group 1. Open the Terminal application, located in Applications Utilities, and type the following (or copy and paste the following line into Terminal) dseditgroup -o edit -p -a admin -t group _lpadmin 2. Then press the Enter key. 3. You will be prompted for your password. Enter your password and you should see a message about a change was made. 4. Quit Terminal 5. Restart the computer and printer. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 15/01/2011, at 8:49 AM, Ray Forma wrote: Sev, You are not alone. I get the same run-around when trying to adjust a Canon printer's settings, except that the requested change does not happen at the end. Does anyone know how to find out who are the members of the lpadmin group, and how do I become a member of that group? The setup: MacPro5,1 - 2.8GHz; MacOS 10.6.5; Canon imageRunner 330s - Gutenprint v5.2.3; Ethernet connection On 24/12/2010, at 11:00 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I have 10.5.8 on a G5 and I tried to pause an attached printer. I got a message Type the password of a user in the lpadmin group to allow Fuji-Xerox ..app to make changes On entering my usual name and password I got an invalid entry message. After three goes it said too many tries, try again later then went ahead and paused the printer anyway. This is a recent phenomenon, I have paued printers without a problem many times in the past. Help please Severin Crisp Happy Christmas to all, just one hour to go! Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
