Saving prints to enabled re-printing an item straight from viewer thingy

Craig321 · 26 Mar 2006 at 20:31

Hi,

We've got our network printer set up on an Ubuntu machine. That's all working fine.

We're needing to make it so that it keeps the logs of the prints in that printer program that's built into ubuntu so we can just right click the item and press print on it to re-print it.

Any ideas how I can do this please?

Craig.

Craig321 · 27 Mar 2006 at 20:13

Craig321 · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:31

:s nobody know then?

FirebarUK · 31 Mar 2006 at 19:37

http://localhost:631

Doesn't save the file though, its the cups frontend type thingy. Handy for looking at the jobs

Craig321 · 2 Apr 2006 at 17:43

Hmm, any idea what the default password is for that? I can't get in with the root password or an account password.

Craig.

Dunky · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:10

In Dapper Drake (Flight 6 of Ubuntu 6.06), the above link takes you straight into the CUPS system without needing a password. Although IIRC, CUPS does have it's own user in the system (which cupsd is run under). And the web interface does have an option to reprint previous files (Manage Jobs > Show Completed Jobs > Reprint Job). Not sure how to get around the username / password bit though :confused:

Edit: Have a look here: http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L274

FirebarUK · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:10

Wierd, you shouldn't need a password. Although this is ubuntu... tried your primary user account?

Craig321 · 4 Apr 2006 at 01:44

I have tried the root pass, doesn't work

Hmm, at the top of the page it says:

Administrative tasks have been disabled for security reasons. Please use Menu System > Administration > Printing.

Maybe I need to enable administrative tasks? If so, how do I?

Thanks
Craig.