gnome-cups-manager

[Giovanni Nava]

Hi,
i managed to solve some gnome-cups-manager and cups issue under freebsd 
and i want to share with you my solution. Maybe there is some users that 
are affected by the same problems:

1- gnome-cups-manager fails to open "add printer" windows and when 
accessed in user mode fail to change to administrator mode with error

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

solution: in terminal i type

xhost local:root



and i add a file /root/.bashrc with the follwing line

export XAUTHORITY=/home/name/.Xauthority


now i can switch in administrator mode and open "add printer" without 
any problems

2- I think that is a cups issue and i am nearly a freebsd newbie, so 
maybe i need your check

gnome-cups-add fails to add printer  with error:

*WARNING **: IPP request* failed with status 1280

even in web interface when a login is requested to add printer, manage 
job and in general for administration, cups seem not to accepting any 
password and crash.

In /var/log/cups/error_log i find pam_start() return error 4. so i 
started thinking that there is some error in cups pam file. i find in 
/usr/local/etc/pam.d/cups the following line:


auth    required        pam_unknown.so nullok shadow
account required        pam_unknown.so


i changed the file to this

auth    required        /usr/lib/pam_unix.so nullok 
account required        /usr/lib/pam_unix.so


To be sure that the correct lp command are used and that cups pick up 
the correct cups pam file I do

ln -s  /usr/local/etc/pam.d/cups /etc/pam.d/cups
mv /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp.bak && mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.bak && mv /usr/bin/lprm /usr/bin/lprm.bak

 
Now either web interface and gnome-cups-manager(-add) add printers and 
manage jobs successfully. I install and setup samba on my freebsd and 
I'll been able to print to two printers shared by a windows computer and 
to printers directly attached to my computer. All seem working very well.
I can print with abiword, openoffice and xdvik successfully doing "lpr 
-P/printer/" (with openoffice i use spadmin to setup a printer)
In firefox, thunderbird and i think many others printers are detected 
directly in their print windows.

I hope that my solution can help you in your work.

Greetings

Giovanni Nava

P.S.
I use gnome 2.20 in a freebsd 6.3 Release computer  (all portupgraded)