[ale] Local printers not supported

[Brian Pitts]

On 08/12/2009 04:07 PM, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> 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.

To administer printers his user needs to be in the lpadmin group, I
think. The program is system-config-printer; alternately, you can use
the web interface at http://localhost:631

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All the best,
Brian Pitts