[cups] Cups usb printer discovery problems

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Sep 9 05:47:13 PDT 2014


This is typically a configuration issue with your Linux distribution.  Unfortunately, I don't know how USB device files are managed these days since there is so much change happening - perhaps you should ask your Linux distribution for assistance?


On Sep 9, 2014, at 6:46 AM, Eugene Prokopiev <enp at itx.ru> wrote:

> 2014-09-09 14:27 GMT+04:00 Michael Sweet :
> 
>> The USB backend is not run as root. You need to make sure the USB device files can be accessed by the lp user or corresponding group for your platform.
> 
> How to know which file permissions need I fix?
> 
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> Eugene Prokopiev
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