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On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:57 AM, NW <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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. > Sounds like cups does not have correct permissions to conncet to lp, i would have though user "cups" needs to be in the lp group but no other users, they need to be in the cups group. Was cups installed via a distro package? as it really should have done this for you, or what ever is approprate for your distro. Robin -- 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