cups article - extra info (if possible)

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Sat Aug 28 13:57:32 UTC 2010


Hi Claudiu,

On 8/28/10 9:15 AM, claudiu vasadi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had to set up a cups server and I followed the freebsd cups
> article<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/>.
> I have a Samsung USB printer and after reading and applying the conditions
> mentioned in chapter 3
> (devfs.rules)<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/printing-cups-configuring-server.html>I
> noticed that cups was unable to detect my printer. That, until I
> stumble
> across a blog that explained the reason. Cups is unable to read the symlink
> created from ugen*.* and the permissions on ugen need to be adjusted too.
> So, I added "add path 'ugenX.Y' mode 0660 group cups" to my devfs.rules and
> I believe this extra info is worth mentioning in the article.
> 
> Please advise if otherwise.
> 

Could you provide the output of 'ls -al /dev/ugen*', your devfs.rules,
and a link to the article that mentions this?

Cheers,

-- 
Glen Barber



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