switched from FC5-FC6 and now my printer doesn't work

[Francois Massonneau]

On Sunday 03 December 2006 23:36, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Just switched from FC5 to FC6.
> > I come thru different pbs.
> >
> > One of them is my printer Brother-HL1250 doesn't work anymore.
> > I have a dual boot, so I saw it works fine using Windows (so the
> > printer is
> > working), but using Linux, I can't make it to print anything, as a
> > simple
> > user but also as root.
> >
> > Using http://localhost:631/ it shows me the following message :
> > "Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lp0": Permission
> > denied".
>
> I tghink this happened to me. Check the permissions on /dev/lp0/ Should
> be: crw-rw-- root lp

Nope, I found the culprit.
It seems to be an old bug.
I setted the permissions on /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel to 0700
and now it works.
Hope that could help someone else. Francois