[TriLUG] Cups and OS 10.3

[Greg Brown]

CUPS is proving to be an on-going nightmare for me.  Yesterday I tar'ed 
up my home directory, move it to a new machine, and promptly blew away 
my old 10.3 installation (I wanted to rid myself of OS 9 and free up 
disk space).  Once the upgraded was finished I untar'ed my home 
directory and everything worked - except CUPS.

Now when I go to the URL http://127.0.0.1:631 to configure my printers 
I cannot get passed the popup window that asks for username and 
password.  To my recollection I used to put in my username (the only 
one on my laptop) and my regular password.  This didn't work.  So I 
tried 'admin' and 'root' as users with my regular password.  None of 
these approaches worked so I enabled the root about and gave it it's 
own password.  Now when I put in 'root' and the root password the 
password box stills gets kicked back with no explanation what went 
wrong.

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?  I have verified I can use sudo from 
my regular user account as well as verifying that I am able to su to 
root from that same account.

Greg