client-error-not-authorized

[Sue Toeppler]

> 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)?
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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I'm sorry, this was a dumb mistake.  We installed version 1.4.6 and the lpadmin and lpstat commands were put into a different directory.  Once I ran them from the new dir, they worked fine.