Permission denied error when printing with CUPS

Davidian1024 · 07-16-2005, 01:11 PM

I have an HP DeskJet 5740 and I just installed CUPS for a print spooler. I went through the web setup and set my printer up. However, when I try to print a test page I get the following error:

Code:

"unable to open print file "/usr/var/spool/cups/d00001-001" - Permission denied"

I have no idea what permissions need to be set in order for this to work, so I'm thinking mine are wrong. Any help would be much appreciated.

tredegar · 07-18-2005, 03:14 AM

Did you install cups as root? If not, it probably will not work, as it needs root permissions.

Davidian1024 · 07-18-2005, 12:43 PM

I installed it as root. Actually I downloaded the source. Compiled it as root, and then installed it as root.

Avatar · 07-18-2005, 01:47 PM

Check the permissions of all of the directories:

/usr/var/spool
/usr/var/spool/cups

I forget if cups runs as it's own user, but whatever user it is, it needs to be able to write jobs into the spool directory.

I had that same problem also. (and for some reason, with my /etc/printcap file as well)