Anyone could make Epson Stylus cx4700 work?

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:06:07PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote:
>  Thanks Roland, I put what you have said to /etc/devfs.rules and it printed
>  the test page well =)
>  The only problem now is Epson Inkjet Tool that shows ink levels, cleans
>  heads, etc when I click on Show ink level it tells:
>  ERROR:
>  Cannot open /dev/ulpt0 read/write: Permission denied

That tool needs to read and write to /dev/ulpt0, which it can't, because
you've set the permission for 'others' to 0.

Basically you have two choices here,

1) Change the mode for ulpt0 to 666. This means everybody can read/write
   to this device. This is unsafe on a multi-user system or on a
   publicly accessible server.
2) change the group of the program to 'cups', and set it's setgid bit
   (chmod g+s ...). This means that the program will assume the group
   'cups' when it starts, giving it access to the device.

IMHO (2) is the best solution, because it gives the program in question
enough rights to work, without exposing the rest of the system
much.

Roland
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