If I print without the printer switched on...

Hi
I use suse 10.0 with CUPS and a HP Laserjet 1010 usb (which I had to setup
as 1012 because there is no option in Yast).
Everything seems to work fine, but if I send from Openoffice or another
program a document to print and the printer was not switched on (yes, I
forget things sometimes :-/ ) then I cannot print anymore (I mean after
switching on, of course!).

I then need to use Yast and uninstall, reinstall the printer it and
everything works again.

I wonder if there is a simpler way to make the printer work without having
to uninstall/install when I do this sort of blunder. I wondered if there is
a printer queue stopping/reset command or similar).

Many thanks

-G-

-G- wrote:
> Hi
> I use suse 10.0 with CUPS and a HP Laserjet 1010 usb (which I had to setup
> as 1012 because there is no option in Yast).
> Everything seems to work fine, but if I send from Openoffice or another
> program a document to print and the printer was not switched on (yes, I
> forget things sometimes :-/ ) then I cannot print anymore (I mean after
> switching on, of course!).
>
> I then need to use Yast and uninstall, reinstall the printer it and
> everything works again.
>
> I wonder if there is a simpler way to make the printer work without having
> to uninstall/install when I do this sort of blunder. I wondered if there is
> a printer queue stopping/reset command or similar).
>
> Many thanks
>
> -G-
>

Before I turn off my printer I stop it using the cups web-interface
which is for me <http://cups:631/printers/stylusphotor300> , since I
have a cups server named cups, and a printer called stylusphotor300.
If you have localhost as your cups server, just open

http://localhost:631/printers in your browser, and click on
"Stop Printer"

Printing is still enabled, and jobs will be queued, so next time you get
your HP online, you can click on start printer and it will print all
jobs in the queue.

If you have problems with login as admin, use lppasswd -a to add users,
or edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf (the <Location /admin> section) so
you allow everyone from localhost if that is ok.

I have:
<Location /admin>

## Restrict access to local domain
Order Deny,Allow
Allow From localhost
Allow From norsborg.local
</Location>

That is ok for me, since my network is local to my home, and only my
family and guests with laptops can connect to my local net.

/birger

Birger wrote:

>
> If you have problems with login as admin, use lppasswd -a to add users,
> or edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf (the <Location /admin> section) so
> you allow everyone from localhost if that is ok.

Sorry, the default cupsd.conf have
AuthType BasicDigest
AuthClass Group
AuthGroupName sys

so you must add lpusers with the group sys

#lppasswd -g sys -a <lpuser>

/birger

Dear /birger,

Many thanks, this info is what I was looking for.
Cheers,

-G-