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Robin Cornelius wrote: > 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 > I am running kubuntu Hardy. Cups was included in the original installation. I certainly did not install it separately. And, as I said, it was all working until yesterday. I was looking at the printer files in system settings and I must have changed something without realising or meaning to. 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