[Techtalk] Configuring local CUPS printer on Slackware

[Conor Daly]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:56:13PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Subba Rao thought:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I have a HP Deskjet printer connected to my Slackware 9 system.  At bootup
> the cupsd server is started up.  In the cupsd.conf  I have the following
> items defined:
> 
> ServerName myhost.xyz.com
> ServerAdmin admin at myhost.xyz.com
> 
> Apart from this I haven't changed anything else. I have restarted the cupsd
> server.
> 
> Using the Browser on port 631,  I have add a printer and then a class. When I
> try to print a test page I get this following error message:
> 
> ---------------
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access the resource on this server.
> ---------------
> 
> The cupsd server does prompt me for userid/password for which I use the root
> and root password.
> 
> Why am I getting this error?  Do I need to creat class first then printer or
> vice versa? Does that sequence really matter?

Can you post the result of:

grep -v ^# /etc/cups/cupsd.conf | grep -v ^$

Mine looks like:

LogLevel info
Port 631
<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.1.*
Allow From 192.168.50.*
</Location>
<Location /admin>
AuthType Basic
AuthClass System
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.1.*
</Location>


Conor
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