kprinter polling

[Maf. King]

On Wednesday 24 Nov 2004 21:05, Frank Siegert wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am using kprinter in KDE 3.3.1 together with CUPS 1.1.22
> I have the following problem:
> When kprinter is started (from an application or command line), it seems to
> look around for print servers with the result, that my router (that
> connects my LAN to the Internet) starts a connection to the internet (and I
> pay).
>
> I have not found any way, to tell kprinter to just use the locally running
> CUPS server, and not poll around. Nothing else in KDE gives this problem,
> so I suppose, my network settings are correct.
>
> Does anybody have an idea, how to stop this behaviour?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Frank
>
> PS: Everything is printing fine, but this is annoying and expensive.


Hi Frank,

One way to stop the cost for you is to block the outbound browse packets in a 
firewall before the line dials.  

Doesn't stop the problem, but makes it much less expensive ;-/

I bet there is a better way at application level, but I don't know it. 

Maf.