207105 - Can not print without root access.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jan D.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030517 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030517 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

To get printing to work one has to have root access to install the Xprint stuff.
 This is a major regression from all previous netscape and mozilla versions that
did not require this.  This makes it very hard to evaluate new versions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install phoenix
2. Try to print something.
3. Error message appears saying Xprint server not running.


Actual Results:  
Error message appears saying Xprint server not running.

Expected Results:  
Printed the page.

Comment 1

[Bjørn Kutter]

you do not require root permission to use xprint
where do you get that false information from?
you can fetch the solaris binary tarball release from
http://puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de/download/xprint-2003-05-08-release_008-sparc-sun-solaris2.7.tar.gz
unpack the content into any location and follow the instructions in the readme

Comment 2

[Jan D.]

The information is from the GISWxprint* packages.  The xprint pages gives the
impression that this is what is needed for Solaris.  If I am wrong, that is good
news :-)

Comment 3

[Erik]

Jan, did the hint given in comment #1 helped you with your problem? If so I'd
suggest resolving this one "invalid"! Thanks a lot.

Comment 4

[Jan D.]

Yes it did, just tried it, thanks.  Suggest improving this piint on the xprint
web page though.