F9 - cups - windows shared printer

[Andy Eager]

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 13:21 +0000, g wrote:
>   
>> Andy Eager wrote:
>> <snip>
>>     
>>> I have no idea how this crap got into cups or even why authentication
>>> should be necessary to print locally.
>>> Anyway, it has nothing to do with the security deny/allow stuff in
>>> cupsd.conf
>>>       
>> this got me wondering.
>>
>> craig,
>>
>> have you give thought to *group*?
>>
>> because problem is with *authentication*, are you
>> 'authenticated' if you add your user name to 'cups group'?
>>
>> ria, under md 9 or 10, i had problems in printing as a 'user'
>> and i believe that doing so enable me to print.
>>
>> i do recall that i still had to enter 'root' password to make
>> any changes to configs.
>>     
> ----
> The problem isn't with authentication, the problem is that somehow the
> printer configuration inherited an authentication requirement when there
> was no desire or action for it to do so.
>   
Absolutely correct.
> Mucking in groups to solve this issue doesn't make much sense.
>
> As for Andy...I have not seen it reappear by itself even after printing
> but I don't print all that much. Thus I don't see much need in patching
> source and recompiling (seems to be overkill).
>   
If it's not reappearing then you're lucky in which case recompiling 
would be overkill.
For me, (under F9 at least) it did reappear and I had no real choice.
(I got sick of removing the line & restarting cups every time I wanted 
to print)


> Craig
>
>   

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