Ubuntu Server

[hipnerd]

Originally Posted by till

Reinstalled the howto today and it installs without problems with the posted cupsd.conf.

Did you use 32bit or 64bit ubuntu?

32-bit server edition (Upgraded kernel to SMP as noted earlier.)

[till]

Originally Posted by hipnerd

32-bit server edition (Upgraded kernel to SMP as noted earlier.)

I've also installed 32bit system. Its a bit whired that your system complains about a valid configuration directive

[hipnerd]

Originally Posted by till

I've also installed 32bit system. Its a bit whired that your system complains about a valid configuration directive

I used the server distro. Could that have affected anything? I'm grasping at straws here.

[till]

Originally Posted by hipnerd

I used the server distro. Could that have affected anything? I'm grasping at straws here.

I dont know. maybe they have changed there anything. I have not tried it with the server distro yet.

[hipnerd]

Originally Posted by till

I dont know. maybe they have changed there anything. I have not tried it with the server distro yet.

OH well. Looks like a repartion and restart is in my future. I was hoping to troubleshoot this, but I'll just give it another try from scratch.

I appreciate your efforts.

[till]

I just saw that i got the same error on the latest install in the error log, but everything is working. Mybe the cups binary was updated since i wrote the howto.

Did you allow the correct IP addresses in the Auth section for the admin panel and change the listen directive to the IP of your server to get access to the admin part of the web frontend?

[hipnerd]

Originally Posted by till

I just saw that i got the same error on the latest install in the error log, but everything is working. Mybe the cups binary was updated since i wrote the howto.

Did you allow the correct IP addresses in the Auth section for the admin panel

<Location /admin>
#
# You definitely will want to limit access to the administration functions.
# The default configuration requires a local connection from a user who
# is a member of the system group to do any admin tasks.  You can change
# the group name using the SystemGroup directive.
#

AuthType Basic
AuthClass Group

## Restrict access to local domain
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.0.30

# Encryption Required
</Location>

30 is my workstation.

and change the listen directive to the IP of your server to get access to the admin part of the web frontend?

Listen 127.0.0.1:631
Listen 192.168.0.25:631

25 is my server.

It looks good to me. I think I have angered the Linux gods in some fashion.

[hipnerd]

Just got done with a full wipe. I downloaded a standard Ubuntu iso instead of the "server" iso I had before. Followed the directions exactly and I got:

I [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] Listening to 7f000001:631
I [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] Listening to c0a80019:631
E [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] Unknown directive AuthGroupName on line 748.
I [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] Full reload is required.
E [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] LoadAllPrinters: Unable to open /etc/cups/printers.conf - No such file or direct
ory
E [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] LoadAllClasses: Unable to open /etc/cups/classes.conf - No such file or director
y
I [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 247 PPDs...
I [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
I [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] Full reload complete.

Again, when I log into CUPS via the web, I get:

Administrative tasks have been disabled for security reasons. Please use Menu System > Administration > Printing. at the top of the screen and the "/images/navbar.gif" is missing. (If it is like last time, I can still probably do most tasks, though.)

I now think that Ubuntu hates me, perhaps because of something I did in a past life and I will have to wait for the karma wheel to turn a full cycle before I can get this to work properly.

[hetodd]

I saw the following entry in Google just a couple down from this thread when I googled the same error.

CUPS Software Administrators Manual
The AuthGroupName directive sets the group to use for Group authentication.
The AuthGroupName directive must appear inside a Location directive. ...
www.cups.org/sam.html - 251k - Cached - Similar pages


This is a quote from the AuthGroupName section of the CUPS manual:
"The AuthGroupName directive must appear inside a Location directive."

I moved it to the admin section the error has disappeared.

Now I get:
"Unable to open /etc/cups/classes.conf - No such file or directory"

working...

[hetodd]

OK so I did:
sudo touch /etc/cups/classes.conf

This created the empty file. I did an ls -l to ensure it had the same permissions as cups.conf.

I still had a problem in my /var/log/cups/error_log:

StartListening: Unable to bind socket for address c0a80164:631 - Cannot assign requested address.

I saw a post indicating that the first part of the address was a translated quad address. I did a ifconfig and saw that my eth0 address was 192.168.1.120... wait -- it's supposed to be 192.168.1.100! I checked my /etc/network/interfaces

cat /etc/network interfaces

... and it had 192.16.1.100 as the static address. So I figure I must have neglected to restart my network after I modified the interfaces file.

I restarted my network:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

... and I am running CUPS!