HELP: Problem regarding printmanager

[Goffioul Michael]

> Sorry for the late reply, had to do some project work.
> 
> Actually, the symptoms are as follows:
> 
> kcmshell printmgr starts the manager without problems. The 
> system does not 
> hang when I try to invoke printmgr via konqueror. It seems as 
> if the printmgr 
> is not loaded. How doe konqueror know which kcmshell module 
> to load ? Maybe 
> there is something wrong....

Do you see the printers (I guess there are on some remote print
server, from the description you gave) using CUPS command-line
tools like "lpstat -a"?
What you can also do is specify the actual remote CUPS server
in the kdeprint options ("kaddprinterwizard --kdeconfig"
-> CUPS section). So KDEPrint will contact directly the remote
CUPS server.

> Sorry for the ignorance of my side, but I am just a cancer 
> researcher with a 
> bit of computer knowledge.
> 
> Aside that, a new problem emerged. The cups server does not 
> see any other cups 
> server. Firewall is down, ipp:631 works and I can connect to 
> the client to 
> other servers. The port seems free... any idea ?

Maybe browsing is not enabled. See /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

Michael.