[cups.bugs] User-ID rejected

[Russbucket]

Michaell wrote:

> Help! CUPS refuses my password, but first to the beginning. I have
> recently bought a HP Photosmart 3210, connected it by USB 2.0 and
> installed HPLIP and Foomatic by the Synaptic Package Manager. From the
> menu System/Administration/Printing, when the printer window appears I can
> select the PhotoSmart 3200 and edit the proporties, but some program
> changes the printer Connection from local to network, when I change it
> back again it starts printing again.
>  The next problem comes when I open the System/Administration/HPLIP
>  toolbox, The CUPS web  interface(http://localhost:631/admin) seems to
>  function ok, but when I try to update - it asks for my userid and
>  password - and worse it will not accept my userid and when I cancel a
>  “401 Unauthorized” is displayed. I wish to use the printer locally as USB
>  2.0 runs the doubble speed of the network.
> 
> Michaell Falke Thereme
You don't say what OS? Did you use lppassword(SUSE Linux) to set the user ID
and password for admin of CUPS. It does not want your actual user ID and
passwd inless thats the one you set up to admin CUPS, but the one set by
lppasswd or the equilvant command for your OS.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Russ