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Simon Waters wrote: > NW wrote: >> Can anyone help here please? For a start I don't understand why the new >> set of permissions changed back. Shouldn't my change remain fixed? > > No device files are created dynamically you you'd have to change the > udev settings which is easy but a bit weird if you are use to old style > Unix. > > However these days I think printing should be from the CUPS daemon, so > I'm not sure previous comments about lp group are appropriate. I think > something else has gone wrong already, probably you are using the wrong > software to print. > > What gave you the impression it couldn't write to /dev/lp0 ? > When I had the problem I looked at http://localhost:631/ in the browser. I looked at the printer details and there was a message which read ... Unable to open device file "dev/lp0": Permission denied so I changed the permissions as I said and then I could print OK. > In particular on my system whilst group lp exists, no one is in it, and > printing works fine. > > Simon > Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html