[cups.general] at wits end here with a brother laser HL2140 printer.

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 04 December 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Greetings;
>
>I had my boot disk commit suicide a month ago.  I had this printer working
>flawlessly for about 6 months prior to that, using brothers own .ppd for an
>HL-2070N which the recommended at the time.
>
>Due to the drive failure, I reinstalled from the August 2008 respin of
> Fedora 8 and then installed amanda and recovered my personal stuff as I had
> good backups.
>
>They (brother) now have a linux driver for this printer, and I have tried it
>and the older one both, but cups is being denied access to set it up
>originally by selinux.  That is now set to permissive but I still can't get
> a test page.  I've set cupsd.conf's error verbosity as high as debug2
> without seeing any real clues as to whats failing other than this in the
> error_log when I attempt to commit with the 'modify printer' button: (as
> root) ==============
>E [03/Dec/2008:22:22:38 -0500] Pause-Printer: Unauthorized
>E [03/Dec/2008:22:23:36 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
>E [03/Dec/2008:22:26:58 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
>E [03/Dec/2008:22:28:11 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
>=============
>
>The location admin section of cupsd.conf:
>==============
><Location /admin>
>#
># You definitely will want to limit access to the administration functions.
># The default configuration requires a local connection from a user who
># is a member of the system group to do any admin tasks.  You can change
># the group name using the SystemGroup directive.
>#
>#AuthType Basic
>#AuthClass System
>AuthType None
>## Restrict access to local domain
>Order Deny,Allow
>Deny From All
>Allow From @LOCAL
>Satisfy Any
>#Encryption Required
></Location>
>============
>
>Does anyone have a clue to show me?  Please..
>
>Thanks.

Ping?



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