[kde-linux] Strange network printing problem

[Anne Wilson]

A laptop with kde 3.3/Debian Sarge installed was printing merrily across 
the lan.  Suddenly it was no longer possible to see the printer in 
kwrite, or any other kde app.  I can print from the command line with 
lpr, and lpq returns the correct printer name and a ready status.

/etc/printcap was pointing to a non-existant dot-matrix printer.  I 
checked the same file on this box which uses the same printer and found 
nothing but the comment lines.  Commenting out the lp lines on the 
laptop resulted in an empty drop-down list (apart from virtual 
printers) in kwrite. 

I have tried reinstalling cups client, but that makes no difference.  
The cups client.conf still carries the correct server name.  It seems 
to be entirely a kde print problem.

In kcontrol, printers section, under Print Server the entries in the 
drop-down box are greyed out.

I'm getting desperate - I have been without a printer for three days 
now.  Has anyone any ideas at all?

Anne
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