printing from KDE

bjlockie · Veteran Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 1186 Location: Canada

I can print a test page fine (as root) but it fails on getting a list of printers for the normal user.

mondauge · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

In case you are using cups as printing backend, you can try the following. Edit the file /etc/cups/printers.conf as root. Your printer should be listed here. Append AllowUser YourUsername at the bottom of your printer's configuration. The end result should look like this:
[code]<DefaultPrinter samsung>
Info XXXXX
Location XXXXX
DeviceURI XXXXX
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
AllowUser mondauge
AllowUser root
</Printer>
Maybe you have to restart cupsd afterwards to make the change active.

bjlockie · Veteran Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 1186 Location: Canada

I can't get a list of servers in administrator mode (root).
I noticed that is says "server: ccc".
Is that where it thinks the CUPS server is, because it should say localhost.

samo · Guru Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 489

I have the same problem. I can print as root, but not as user. The option AllowUser doesn't help.

xmit · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject:

Same here. I think this came with kde 3.5.5. Can anyone confirm this?

mistermock · n00b Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 12

Same problem here after upgrading to KDE 3.5.5...

xmit · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject:

An here is a work around: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-507475-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html