On Sunday 03 December 2006 23:36, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Just switched from FC5 to FC6. > > I come thru different pbs. > > > > One of them is my printer Brother-HL1250 doesn't work anymore. > > I have a dual boot, so I saw it works fine using Windows (so the > > printer is > > working), but using Linux, I can't make it to print anything, as a > > simple > > user but also as root. > > > > Using http://localhost:631/ it shows me the following message : > > "Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lp0": Permission > > denied". > > I tghink this happened to me. Check the permissions on /dev/lp0/ Should > be: crw-rw-- root lp Nope, I found the culprit. It seems to be an old bug. I setted the permissions on /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel to 0700 and now it works. Hope that could help someone else. Francois
