[cups] printing setup help

Narcis Garcia informatica at actiu.net
Sat Jan 6 01:56:04 PST 2018


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El 05/01/18 a les 04:41, Phil Duncan ha escrit:
> hello
>  i have been trying to organise a printer on a fedora 25 system
> no luck so far
> one is a networked brother HL-5350N BR-script3
> the other is a HP-LaserJet-1020 usb.
> i currently have reached and impasse
> i seem to have a user name and password set on my localhost:631/admin/
> (no idea what either could be and only get one try before the response is
> "forbidden" until next day so brute force is a slow process)
> and am unable to even delete an existing printer
> even without this impediment niether printer would acually print a test
> page although both are visible from cups they both return
> *"Unable to locate printer "br5250"."*
> 
> *the brother networked printer is on the same network as the fedora os
> machine and will accept print jobs from a win machine on the same network*
> 
> *fedora file browser identifies the printer as on the network as well as in
> the windows workgroup*
> 
> *but for now a nice or nasty way of resetting the cups password and
> username  (uninstall cups?)*
> 
> 
> 
> 
> *phil Duncan *
> 
> *Lapoinya Tasmania 7325*
> 
> 
> 
> *au*
> *ps *
> *my brother was my linux maintainer but he died from cancer last winter so
> i am having to do my own linux maintanance *
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