CUPS system setup

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Mon Feb 27 04:44:40 UTC 2006


On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:59:20 -0500
Bill Marcum <bmarcum at iglou.com> wrote:

<snip>

> In Ubuntu it is recommended that you use the Gnome tools (System > 
> Administration > Printing, or gnome-cups-manager) instead of the CUPS 
> port 631 interface to configure printers.  If you prefer to use port 
> 631, add yourself to group lpadmin.

Actually, that won't do it. You need to add "cupsys" to the "shadow" group.

sudo adduser cupsys shadow

Peter




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