CUPS & unauthorized error msgs

I'm new to cups... thought I had it setup but when I tried to create a
new printer (/usr/local/cups/sbin/lpadmin -p Belk406 -E -v
socket://123.321.123.321:9100 -m laserjet.ppd), my daemon appears to go
into a loop. The error log then contains (debug2 level of debugging):

d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] CloseClient: Removing fd 5 from InputSet
and OutputSet...
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] AcceptClient(lis=5fae0) 0 NumClients = 0
D [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] AcceptClient: 5 from localhost:631.
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] AcceptClient: Adding fd 5 to InputSet...
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] ReadClient: 5, used=0, file=-1
D [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] ReadClient: 5 POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] decode_auth(6acf0): Authorization string
= "Local E18D65F6B942722D0069AC2EC02F5D03"
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] decode_auth: 5 username=""
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] IsAuthorized: con->uri = "/admin/"
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] FindBest: uri = "/admin/"...
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] FindBest: Location / Limit 7f
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] FindBest: Location /admin Limit 7f
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] FindBest: best = "/admin"
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] IsAuthorized: auth = 0, satisfy=0...
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] IsAuthorized: username = "" password = 0
chars
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] ReadClient: Unauthorized request for
/admin/...
D [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] SendError: 5 code=401 (Unauthorized)
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] FindBest: uri = "/admin/"...
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] FindBest: Location / Limit 7f
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] FindBest: Location /admin Limit 7f
d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] FindBest: best = "/admin"
D [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] CloseClient: 5

I'm dumbfuzzled - why am I getting an unauthorized??

tia
pj

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:08:58 -0800, pj thoughtfully wrote:

> I'm new to cups... thought I had it setup but when I tried to create a new
> printer
/usr/local/cups/sbin/lpadmin -p Belk406 -E -v socket://123.321.123.321:9100 -m laserjet.ppd

, my daemon appears to go
> into a loop. The error log then contains (debug2 level of debugging):
>
{[snip]
> [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] ReadClient: 5 POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1 d
> [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] decode_auth(6acf0): Authorization string =
> "Local E18D65F6B942722D0069AC2EC02F5D03" d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500]
> decode_auth: 5 username="" d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] IsAuthorized:
> con->uri = "/admin/" d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] FindBest: uri =
> "/admin/"... d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] FindBest: Location / Limit 7f
> d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] FindBest: Location /admin Limit 7f d
[snip]
> [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] IsAuthorized: username = "" password = 0
> chars
> d [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] ReadClient: Unauthorized request for
> /admin/...
> D [16/Mar/2005:14:02:07 +0500] SendError: 5 code=401 (Unauthorized) d
[snip]

Don't know but it looks like it's trying to access folder /admin/ without
suppling a user or password, too much security? Try simple lpadmin

/usr/local/cups/sbin/lpadmin -p Belk406 -E -h 123.321.123.321 -m
laserjet.ppd

Thanks... but that's what I was doing that was, in turn, generating
that error message (leading me to believe that the gui actually does a
hit on that "page"). That command just sits there - appearing to do
nothing. What it's actually doing is filling the error_log w/ those
messages (it's the cause of the error_log msgs, I'm sure cuz nothing
else is happening on that machine at that time).

pj