Printer Installation & Passwords

[OperatorA]

Was in my "Administrator" account, trying to install a printer driver for my Lexmark X2650 printer, a driver for Linux (Debian derivatives) I got from Lexmark. It was installing it and asked for my administrative password. I gave it and it said INCORRECT PASSWORD. I double checked and I DID use the CORRECT password.

Now what do I do? What is wrong? The password works for doing other things that call for a password. In fact I just installed the Firewall with it & upgraded some security patches...

Please help.
Larry

[sikander3786]

I haven't used Lexmark printer, so not that much experienced on it.

It might be asking for the root password which is by default disabled in Ubuntu. Did you try

sudo -i

Then run the driver installer and see if it gets installed or not.

Note, sudo is sufficient in most cases.

[dabl]

If you're using the CUPS utility, I think it wants "admin" as the root password. Dunno why they do it that way ....

[OperatorA]

None of that works...