<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Standard CUPS won't do this if you have actually stopped cupsd and it is no longer running. Try:<div><br></div><div> lpadmin -p printer -o auth-info-required=none</div><div><br></div><div>which makes the change to the running cupsd.</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 19, 2009, at 10:03 AM, George Ross wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I have a home network. All PCs are Ubuntu 9.04. The PC with the printer, prints fine. Up until a few days ago the other PC could use that printer via the network, too. But, apparently, an update changed things.<br>I did a goole search & found this site that explains the problem but some have had success whereas I have not.<br><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2008/11/21/cant-print-in-evince-gedit-claws-mail/#comments">http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2008/11/21/cant-print-in-evince-gedit-claws-mail/#comments</a><br>I’ve had no success using…<br>sudo /etc/init.d/cups stop<br>sudo gedit /etc/cups/printers.conf<br>Change line to #AuthInfoRequired username,password<br>Save/close<br>sudo /etc/init.d/cups start<br><br>It rewrites itself back to AuthInfoRequired username,password<br>I also tried this, sudo vi /etc/cupsd/printers.conf but I don’t have a cupsd folder so the terminal acts rather strange so I closed it.<br><br>I have also posted on the ubuntuforums site;<br>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7094796#post7094796<br>& haven't had any response!<br><br>I'm not all that swift using the terminal to solve things but it would seem that a program elsewhere is re-writing the printers.conf after it's been edited.<br>Please help as I'm at a loss how to fix this!<br><br>GARoss<br>_______________________________________________<br>cups-bugs mailing list<br>cups-bugs@easysw.com<br>http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/cups-bugs<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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