{"id":153,"date":"2010-01-16T20:49:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T01:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=153"},"modified":"2012-03-22T22:09:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T03:09:41","slug":"fixing-usrlibcupsbackendsmb-failed-error-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2010\/01\/16\/fixing-usrlibcupsbackendsmb-failed-error-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing &#8220;\/usr\/lib\/cups\/backend\/smb failed&#8221; error in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_154\" style=\"width: 511px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cups.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154 \" title=\"CUPS server showing error\" src=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cups.png\" alt=\"CUPS server showing error\" width=\"501\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CUPS server showing error<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new setups for printing has been modernized in Ubuntu 9.10 and 9.04 work perfectly most of the time, but sometimes a misbehaving script or update decides to have its own mind and messes up all the\u00a0permissions for <a href=\"http:\/\/cups.org\/\">CUPS<\/a> to work properly. Here is a guide to restore the former printing versatility before the mess-up.<\/p>\n<p>To fix the permission errors:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nsudo chown root -hR \/usr\/lib\/cups\/backend\r\nsudo chmod 755 -hR \/usr\/lib\/cups\/backend\r\nsudo aa-complain cupsd\r\nsudo chmod a+x \/usr\/lib\/cups\/backend\/smb\r\nsudo chmod a+x \/usr\/lib\/cups\/backend\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Also make sure your Windows printer is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">actually accessible<\/span> in order to prevent further access issues. In addition, to access the CUPS web interface just navigate to <a href=\"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:631\/\">http:\/\/127.0.0.1:631\/<\/a>. When it asks for your password, use your Linux login.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new setups for printing has been modernized in Ubuntu 9.10 and 9.04 work perfectly most of the time, but sometimes a misbehaving script or update decides to have its own mind and messes up all the\u00a0permissions for CUPS to work properly. Here is a guide to restore the former printing versatility before the mess-up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[638,642,862,639,643,28,641,640,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}