[SOLVED] Difficulty installing network printer Brother HL-2070N

[jimbobs]

Success!

I reinstalled CUPS, set up the printer from the CUPS (localhost:631) page and successfully printed a test page.

coffee412, thanks for all of your help and, most of all, patience!

[coffee412]

Success!

I reinstalled CUPS, set up the printer from the CUPS (localhost:631) page and successfully printed a test page.

coffee412, thanks for all of your help and, most of all, patience!

Thats great to hear!

I wonder what the problem with cups was? I think it was something to do with the cupsd.conf file. It probably had a bad setting in it somehow.

Glad to see your off and printing!

coffee

[pdc_2]

good that you can now register a printer;

as you have re-installed CUPS, it would be interesting to see what the contents of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf are now: wondering if one can see any changes from the first printout we got;

I was intrigued at the command

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cat /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

as on our 18.3 I get

cat /etc/cups/cupsd.conf cat: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf: Permission denied

so I would need to use sudo to get access;

I wonder if others reading this thread can also see their cupsd.conf files as users;

so the question would be: how to Enable Regular Users to Add Printers to CUPS

this article https://kernelmastery.com/enable-regula ... s-to-cups/ also says

CUPS and the accompanying web console (http://localhost:631) require the root user to log in in order to configure or add printers. So how can we get around this problem?

and the suggested solution there was to look for

..... the line which says "<Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer...".

in the cupsd.conf file ........then

On the following line, immediately after the text "Require user @SYSTEM" add the desired user whom you would like to allow to configure CUPS.

so where it is

Require user @SYSTEM

for jimbobs one would edit it to

Require user @SYSTEM jimbobs

[coffee412]

I would think that you would just have to add the user to the lpadmin group and possibly lp group. But you may be right.

Incidently, My /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file is about 140 lines long (including # comments). I noticed that @jimbobs was considerably less. That caught my eye anyways.

I can read the contents of my cupsd.conf file. But I think its because I finally got lazy and added myself to the 'wheel' group

[pdc_2]

thanks; I remember now I can read the cupsd.conf file using the GUI and navigating to the cups folder in /etc where it can be opened with LibreOffice: I can only assume this is a Mint addition to help us all; the file can only be directly read with

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gksudo gedit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

........ I was intrigued by the wheel group comment: I must check up on that concept;

[jimbobs]

Ultimately, it was reinstalling CUPS that resolved my problem.