Ubuntu Server

I have been following the HOWTO guide listed here to create my own domain server for my Windows XP Pro network.

So far I've had some limited success, but I'm not quite there.

My largest problem is that I cannot get CUPS to work correctly. Jobs just go to the printer and die a quiet death in queue.

This is the output of my CUPS error_log file:

I did have difficulty figuring out where the line:

"AuthGroupName shadow"​

belonged in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. I settled for a place in the <Location /admin> section, because that did give me access to the admin area of CUPS, although I suspect this is the wrong place. I cannot find a commented out AuthGroupName line to put this near. It is mentioned once in the "Security Options" directions, but placing it in that area results in an error message.

Anyone have any help for me on this. I feel like I'm close, but that mythical cigar eludes me.

 

That is where I had the line initially. This is what I get when I put AuthGroupName there:

 

I matched line for line. But just in case I missed something. I copied your cupsd.conf file and edited the IP addresses to match my system.

Then I restarted CUPS with /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

Here is the new output of /var/log/cups/error_log:

It still doesn't like AuthGroupName shadow for some reason.

 

Are you sure you followed the tutorial to the letter?

 

Well, I was drinking heavily at the time, but I'm pretty sure I followed along.

Obviously, something did not work quite right. So I won't let myself off the hook completely, but I followed the instructions as closely as possible. The only areas where I am aware that I deviated from the instructions was in creating the initial user account. I did not name it "Administrator" because I did not notice that was required. I also installed the SMP kernel as I have a server with dual PIIIs.

The first place I noticed some deviation from expected responses was in the area involving "quota." I believe that I got some error responses at that point. I attemtped to redo that section in case I made a mistake and got similar results. I decided to plow ahead anyway, on the basis that perhaps those actually were the expected responses. What the heck do I know?

Then when I attempted to test the setup with:

smbclient -L localhost -U%​

I noticed that the "print$" line was missing. But the instructions said the output should look similar to the one shown. I figured I would at least complete the installation before peppering the board with questions.

And in the CUPS web interface, I get this line at the top of all pages:

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

Since I am airing all my dirty laundry here. The other problem I have noticed is that when I close my Windows workstations down, they get an error message regarding "roaming profiles." It doesn't appear to be affecting anything. So it was going to be my next plea for help after I solved the CUPS issue, which is preventing me from printing. But who knows? maybe it's related. So I'll throw it in for completeness' sake.

 

Actually, I believe in my case, this error occurs because of this problem:

Code:

E [24/Jan/2006:22:49:13 -0800] Unknown directive AuthGroupName on line 748.

For fun, I attempted to add cupsys to the shadow group. Here is the result:

Code:

root@server1:/home/john# adduser cupsys shadow
The user `cupsys' is already a member of `shadow'.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Code:

<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.

Code:

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.

 

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:

Code:

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
[B]E [26/Jan/2006:23:09:53 -0800] Unknown directive AuthGroupName on line 748.[/B]
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.

 

Move AuthGroupName to the Admin Location

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...

 

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!