Re: cups can't find printer

From	JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: cups can't find printer
Date	2016-04-10 09:44 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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dlbendigo <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
> "john@wexfordpress.com" <john@wexfordpress.com> Wrote in message:
>> I downloaded a fresh hplip file. Still no joy  then I went back
>> to Cups and instead of going to "add printer" I went to
>> "administration" and added it there. Now it works!
>> John Culleton
>> 
> "Add Printer" should have asked for your root password.
> If it didn't, there is something wrong in your system.
> Doug.

Relatedly, I've noticed that problem with "Find New Printers".
If you just click "Find New Printers", cups returns immediately,
without asking for root password, and just says "nothing found",
even when there's a printer there ready and waiting to be found.
Instead, if you first click "Add Printers", it asks for root
password. After giving it, I return to "Administration", click
"Find New Printers", and now it finds the ready-and-waiting printer.
That "Find New Printers" needs to be fixed so that it asks for
the root password when clicked.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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cups can't find printer "john@wexfordpress.com" <john@wexfordpress.com> - 2016-04-05 14:01 -0700
  Re:cups can't find printer dlbendigo  <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2016-04-06 09:56 +1000
    Re: cups can't find printer "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-06 12:50 +0200
  Re: cups can't find printer "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2016-04-06 13:29 +0200
    Re: cups can't find printer "john@wexfordpress.com" <john@wexfordpress.com> - 2016-04-06 11:57 -0700
      Re: cups can't find printer dlbendigo  <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2016-04-09 15:13 +1000
        Re: cups can't find printer JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-10 09:44 +0000

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