Cannot print from KDE applications

[Smitty]

On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:42, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> > Thank you Mike and Till.  I did make the amendments to the
> > /etc/cups/cups.conf_new file as suggested.  (In suse the cups.conf file
> > is a template) I did not see anything in the file that would have
> > prevented cups from printing.   What I did this time was wait and see if
> > kde would print. Before, if it did not print quickly, I would kill the
> > app.  After clicking print, it took about 1½ minutes for the print window
> > to come up and then after clicking print, it took about 3 minutes until
> > the data was dumped to the printer.
>
> The problem is still there: connection to the CUPS server is *very*
> slow, this may be due to name lookup. When KDEPrint contacts the CUPS
> server, it uses the network name mentionned in the URI of the
> concerned printer. It's possible that a name lookup occurs at that
> point, which is very long for some reasons that are out of the
> scope of KDEPrint. Just 2 little things:
>
> 1) be sure to modify the file cupsd.conf (you mentionned cups.conf_new)

This I did.
>
> 2) be sure to restart the CUPS server

I did this as well, but the difficulty remains.  I would be happy to attach my 
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf file if you would like to see it.  
Could it be I have some corrupted kdeprint binaries?
Regards,
Tom
>
> Michael.