[Discuss] K3B and Ubuntu

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-06-20 19:04-0700 Murray Strome wrote:

> The permissions on /dev/lp0 and /dev/usb/lp are:
>
> crw-rw----
>
> which are the same permissions as in my Mandrake installation on another 
> computer.  When I use the system manager utility, I do see that in the status 
> of my parallel printer, it says something like "cannot start printer -- no 
> permission"

You unfortunately truncated the results above.  Run "ls -l /dev/lp0
/dev/usb/lp" to get the full results which will identify the actual user owner
and group owner of those files.

I have no printing expertise, but since it appears you are having permission
problems, I suggest the account you are trying to print from is simply not a
member of the correct group as identified by the full "ls" command above.
For Kubuntu, simply use the kuser GUI (accessible from the "K" menu ==>
"System"), to add a particular user account to the required group for
printing (lp or whatever).

Alan
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