Printer & Scanner permission?

[elvisuk]

H! Mikkh, ;D

In Mint how do i give my Printer & Scanner permission ? i have done it before but i can't remember how? (see piccy)

Thanks

[mikkh]

You can use this command apparently (borrowed from another forum)

usermod -a -G lp user

(where 'user' is your username)



.... don't forget Linux *IS* case sensitive

[elvisuk]

OK Mikkh i will give it a go tomorrow i will let you know if it works ;D

Thanks

[elvisuk]

H! Mikkh, ;D

No that did not work still not picking up my scanner, i will give it another try later

Thanks for you help

[elvisuk]

I all so tyred "sudo su root" that did not work

[mikkh]

Yes, maybe you need to login as 'root' to do it

sudo and su are two different commands btw - you can't mix them like that

sudo is used before a command to stop it asking for 'root' permissions and is a one off command as in ..... sudo apt-get install (name of package) Afterwards you are back to plain user

'su' (nothing else needed) means become root forever - well while the terminal/console window is open anyway. It will only work if you have supplied a 'root' password via 'Mint Assistant' because it asks for the 'root' password immediately on typing 'su'

[mikkh]

..... so you should have used the following if logged in as a user

sudo usermod -a -G lp user

or

su

(supply password)

then

usermod -a -G lp user

(and not forgetting to change 'user' to your real username)

[elvisuk]

H! Mikkh, OK i will give them a go later Thanks ;D