kprinter doesn't work together with CUPS

[Maf. King]

On Monday 31 Jan 2005 14:47, Goffioul Michael wrote:
> > > OK, but this doesn't make sense. You *should* see all the
> >
> > sections as
> >
> > > a normal user as well. That is the weird thing about your system,
> > > and something I don't understand. If the CUPS plugin was loaded,
> > > you should see all these sections when selecting a printer, even as
> > > a normal user. This doesn't seem to be the case, and this is where
> > > I'm stuck.
> > > Just to be sure, you still doesn't see those sections when you start
> > > in a terminal "kcmshell printmgr", do you?
> >
> > No, I only see the "General" section.
>
> I'm really sorry, I'm currently out of ideas. There's something I
> don't get here. I guess this is a plain SuSE installation, you didn't
> upgrade anything, you have a locally running CUPS server and so on?
>
> Michael.


I'm probably way off track here, but do you have any of the KDE Kiosk project 
access restrictions in place?

IIRC, it is possible to prevent users changing printing backends in kprinter 

Maf.