Admin password is wrong??

[kvndodson91]

I hope this is in the right section. After I did a clean install for 10.04 I had to reinstall my printer drivers. during setup it ask me for my password. I had no problem with 9.10 but now I cant go any farther then that, it keeps telling me my own password is wrong. any ideas on how to get it to work?

where i got the driver from
http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=content&productCode=LEXMARK_X2650&actp=RECOMMEND&id=DR860&segment=DOWNLOAD&userlocale=EN_US&oslocale=en_US&locale=en

[wilee-nilee]

This may help, but maybe wait for others to chime in.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

[kvndodson91]

If all else fails ill try that. I dont think its the problem, I use my password for everything else, its just during the driver installation it apparently isnt correct. But i guess i wont know until i try it. thanks for the reply.

[wilee-nilee]

I hope this is in the right section. After I did a clean install for 10.04 I had to reinstall my printer drivers. during setup it ask me for my password. I had no problem with 9.10 but now I cant go any farther then that, it keeps telling me my own password is wrong. any ideas on how to get it to work?

where i got the driver from
http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=content&productCode=LEXMARK_X2650&actp=RECOMMEND&id=DR860&segment=DOWNLOAD&userlocale=EN_US&oslocale=en_US&locale=en

So did you go to system-admin-printing to see if the drivers are available via Ubuntu. Generally you don't have to get them from a manufacturer.

[kvndodson91]

I tried that, and it could not find drivers for Lexmark 2600 series printers

[wilee-nilee]

I tried that, and it could not find drivers for Lexmark 2600 series printers

I figure you had, I wonder if this a root access 1st before installing the driver, issue. I have no clue really I have never had to install a 3rd part driver.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6439321
Found this 3rd post by sef has a link to installation in Ubuntu.

[kvndodson91]

I had an idea. im somewhat new to linux and im still learning the terminal and how it generally works so bare with me if this doesnt make sense. i remember making a root launcher a while back with the code


gksudo "gnome-open %u"

so i could drag and drop things to open as root. i gave it a try with the driver file (which is a shell file, .deb.sh) and it didnt work. but the principal is still there. can i create a launcher to launch a shell script as root? just a thought, not sure if it would work

[wbar2]

I hope this is in the right section. After I did a clean install for 10.04 I had to reinstall my printer drivers. during setup it ask me for my password. I had no problem with 9.10 but now I cant go any farther then that, it keeps telling me my own password is wrong. any ideas on how to get it to work?

where i got the driver from
http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=content&productCode=LEXMARK_X2650&actp=RECOMMEND&id=DR860&segment=DOWNLOAD&userlocale=EN_US&oslocale=en_US&locale=en

It's asking for the root password. Trying running the script with sudo in the terminal using:


sudo sh NAMEOFSCRIPT.sh