[cups.general] client-error-not-authorized

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Jan 25 10:38:30 PST 2011


On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:20 AM, Sue Toeppler wrote:
> We installed Cups 1.4.

What update of CUPS 1.4.x?

What operating system?

> If I try to add a printer with the lpadmin command, I get the error "lpadmin: add-printer(enable) failed: client-error-not-authorized".  I am logged in as root.
> When I do an lpstat -t, I get "lpstat: get-jobs failed: client-error-bad-request".
> Why would this happen?

Can you post a link to a copy of your error_log file (typically in /var/log/cups)?

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair








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