Comments on: Can’t print in evince, GEdit, Claws-Mail.

By: Basia

Basia — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:09:51 +0000

Hi
I had also similar problem: printers.conf was recreated each time after adding # or erasing of line:
AuthInfoRequired username,password

Finally, after using your last idea of
AuthInfoRequired none

It works for me, at least after first restart.
Thanks for advise
Basia

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:03:59 +0000

I’m sorry GARoss, the cupsd was a typo but it shouldn’t make a difference if you use vi or gedit.

Try changing the line to:
AuthInfoRequired none

Let us know if it worked please.

By: GARoss

GARoss — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:43:35 +0000

I have a home network. All PCs are Ubuntu 9.04. The PC with the printer, prints fine. The PC using the printer via the network is where the problem is. I’ve had no success using…
sudo /etc/init.d/cups stop
sudo gedit /etc/cups/printers.conf
Change line to #AuthInfoRequired username,password
Save/close
sudo /etc/init.d/cups start

It rewrites itself back to AuthInfoRequired username,password
I also tried this, sudo vi /etc/cupsd/printers.conf but I don’t have a cupsd folder so the terminal acts rather strange so I closed it.

By: Autonomouse

Autonomouse — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:27:57 +0000

I had this problem where it kept overwriting the /etc/cups/printers.conf file. I got around it by simply adding a username and password, even though it didn’t need one (it had to be a real username and password of course).

Dunno if this will work in every situation, but it may be an easy fix for someone else too, so I thought I’d mention it

By: Douglas

Douglas — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:58:19 +0000

Thanks for your post, would have taken me ages to find the solution without it

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:16:17 +0000

Thank you so much, I have had this problem for a while, but have not really taken the time to fix it.

found your article, took me two minutes. Thanks so much.

By: jonbonjovi

jonbonjovi — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:33:57 +0000

@modeltweaker: how many times have you tried ti print? does the workaround work after the first print?

By: modeltweaker

modeltweaker — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:23:26 +0000

Had this problem with Ubuntu 8.10 – the Intrepid Ibex. Stopped cups, used Gedit to comment out the line, restarted cups and everything works. As a Linux rookie I have to count on the community for help. Thank you so much.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:59:35 +0000

OK,

I was able to edit the printers.conf file after stopping it. The file would overwrite itself after the first print job??

It seems that this workaround does just not work for me.
After the first print job the printers.conf file removes the “#” from infront of the Authorize line in the conf file.

This is a little frustrating.

-Jason

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:31:31 +0000

Open a terminal
Type; sudo /etc/init.d/cups stop
To start it again
Type: sudo /etc/init.d/cups start