Problem: CUPS re-writing printers.conf

[Timothy Murphy]

Anne Wilson wrote:

>> >> I am trying to print the CUPS Print Test Page from my laptop
>> >> on a printer attached to another machine on my home LAN.
>> >> But whenever I do this CUPS adds the line
>> >> "AuthInfoRequired username,password" to /etc/cups/printers.conf
>> >> on my laptop.
>> >> The result is that the job is rejected;

> I've never done this, so I'm just throwing out ideas for you to consider. 
> You
> are connecting to alfred in order to print.  If you set up printers in
> samba you have to set whether the driver is going to be local or remote -
> how do you do that in the cups setup?

Thanks again for your response.

When setting up the printer on the laptop,
I say that it is a network printer, choose http as the protocol,
and give the URI of the printer, in this case
	http://192.168.2.1:631/printers/HP_LaserJet_5L .

(The printer is never found by clicking on Network Find Printer.)

> The other thing that comes to mind is that because it is attached to
> alfred,
> you definitely have to authenticate there.  You'd need either matching
> username and password or user-mapping, I would have thought.

There is no suggestion that one has to setup anything,
and I don't see where one could set username/password
in any of the CUPS files.

> Hope it starts off some useful train o thought.

Yes, thanks.
I'll try setting up some form of authentication,
or else try turning it off.
But when I googled for the error message,
none of those who encountered the problem
seemed to have found any simple solution.


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