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>
