CUPS horror story
Michael Sweet
mike at easysw.com
Thu Aug 31 04:41:12 PDT 2006
Zoubidoo wrote:
> ...
> Next, I try the CUPS web interface (localhost:631). It has a
> promising checkbox "share published printers connected to this
> system". Excellent! Then it asks me for a "username and password
> for 'CUPS'". The only password for this ubuntu platform doesn't
> work. This very problem was mentioned in ESR's article, so from the
> outside it looks like no progress here.
Ubuntu seriously broke CUPS 1.2. Please file a bug report with
the Ubuntu folks - maybe they can be convinced to fix things...
Also, I *think* the following FAQ is still useful on Ubuntu:
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L274
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