[ale] Local printers not supported

Michael Hirsch mdhirsch at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 16:07:03 EDT 2009


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:57 AM, drifter<drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> Michael,
> I have been out of the country, but it looks like so one answered your
> question.  I have fought similar problems on Ubuntu and in every case it was a
> permissions problem.  I would try starting the printer setup program with a
> sudo command.  (Having written that, I must admit I have no idea what the name
> of such a program might be. :)  )  I have spent most of my Linux life under
> the Red Hat and only recently have begun messing around with Ubuntu -- on a
> netbook.

Thanks Sean,  I'll have him double check that.  I do know that he
checked the "Administrator mode" button, but maybe that didn't work.
Hmmm.

Michael



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