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Quick fixes to boost your Copilot responses
I have told Copilot that I can and do successfully connect to localhost:631 (the address of the CUPS printer server) from a web browser on wsl / Ubuntu (it matters not which web browser I use, Chrome, Edge, or DuckDuckGo), after which the CUPS server sends me a user name prompt, to which I respond with my user name, after which the server sends me a password prompt. It is only after I have entered my password that the CUPS server responds with "Forbidden.
Your account does not have the necessary privileges.".
So in the next sentence after I state those facts to Copilot, I ask it "what do I need to do to obtain the 'necessary privileges'?", and Copilot responds with the solution to a categorically different, albeit more common problem, namely an inability to connect to the CUPS server in the first place. Clearly, if I could not connect to the server, it would not be possible for the server to have issued me a username prompt or a password prompt. But it has done both. In subsequent attempts to refine my query, I have pointed this out.
I have rephrased it many different ways, and have taken pains to make clear that I do not have a problem making a connection, but instead have a problem logging in to the CUPS server, and each time Copilot responds with a solution for an inablity to connect to the server (for example, it asks me to make sure "the network proxy" is set up properly to which I respond that f it were a proxy problem, I could not connect to the server.
I have tried so many different ways to try to get a useful answer out of Copilot that I swaer, if Copilot were a human being who was copiloting a plane and kept participating in miscommunication with the crack ace pilot sitting next to him/her, that plane would have crashed a long time ago! (Just coincidentally, last season's episodes of "The Rehearsal" dealt with exactly the issue of pilot/copilot communication difficulties being responsible for a large percentage of the airplane crashes that occur in real life. CoPilot seems aptly named).
I got the exact same error message, plus the prompt silliness, and it turned out to be a firewall/VPN problem. As in, I didn't know I needed a VPN connection to reach my destination. ymmv