On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:05:56PM -0500, David Reedy Jr wrote: > Small home network. Trying to get cups working on my server. > > FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #4: Tue Apr 15 11:01:37 CDT 2008 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OMEGA > ... > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold > ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 > ppbus0: [ITHREAD] > ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE > Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: > ppbus0: <Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6L/0101.01> PRINTER HP ENHANCED > PCL5,PJL
<snip> > StateMessage Unable to open device file "/dev/lpt0": Permission denied <snip> > Trying to print a test page from the cups web interface on a client > machine, I get the error message. Doing chmod 777 /dev/lpt0 does not > change anything. > > Can somebody tell me what I've done wrong or point me in the direction I > should be looking? IICR, the print device should belong to the cups group. At least, that's my working setup. I have the following in /etc/devfs.conf: # Give cups printer access own lpt0 root:cups perm lpt0 0660 If you don't want to reboot; # chown root:cups /dev/lpt0 # chmod 0660 /dev/lpt0 Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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