Strange network printing problem

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'm not sure how to complete the stanza that is
there for lpr -

# rlp|Remote printer entry:\
:lp=:\
:rm=remotehost:\anne-linux.lydgate.net
:rp=remoteprinter:\Printer
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:

Can someone tell me what the missing entries are?

Any advice anyone can give that enables me to print again would be
invaluable.

Anne
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Wednesday 11 January 2006 04:37, Anne Wilson wrote:
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'm not sure how to complete the stanza that is
there for lpr -
>
# rlp|Remote printer entry:\
>
:lp=:\
:rm=remotehost:\anne-linux.lydgate.net
:rp=remoteprinter:\Printer
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
>
Can someone tell me what the missing entries are?
>
Any advice anyone can give that enables me to print again would be
invaluable.
>
Anne

Hi Anne:

Don't know about advice yet. First some questions.

Did you do some kind of upgrade/update prior to the problem? What kernel are
you using?

I have kde 3.5 under FC4 which MAY work differently. I use
system-config-printer from cli to set up printers which puts printer info
into /etc/cups/printers.conf. /etc/printcap should get it's info from there
via the cupsd(8). I'm running two printers, a laser on the network, and an
inkjet from the parallel port.

contents of /etc/cups/printers.conf:
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
# Written by cupsd on Sun 04 Sep 2005 03:04:57 PM PDT
<DefaultPrinter laser>
DeviceURI lpd://192.168.0.70/PS-Port_1
Location
Info
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>
<Printer inkjet>
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
Location
Info
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>


contents of /etc/printcap:
# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file
# will be lost.
laser|:rm=home:rp=laser:
inkjet|inkjet:rm=home:rp=inkjet:

HTH,
Tom

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Wednesday 11 Jan 2006 22:48, Thomas Taylor wrote:
>
Hi, Tom. Thanks for replying.
Don't know about advice yet. First some questions.
>
Did you do some kind of upgrade/update prior to the problem?

I did security updates, and installed some additional packages.

What
kernel are you using?
>
2.4.27.

I have kde 3.5 under FC4 which MAY work differently. I use
system-config-printer from cli to set up printers which puts printer
info into /etc/cups/printers.conf. /etc/printcap should get it's
info from there via the cupsd(8). I'm running two printers, a laser
on the network, and an inkjet from the parallel port.
>
Thanks for sending your configs. Part of the problem is that I'm not
yet familiar with debian, so there may be a tool that I'm unaware of
that would help here. However, since printing from the CLI works, it
does seem to be a kde problem, so I would have expected kcontrol to be
the place to fix it. There I am completely unable to attach a
networked printer. The menu items for server are greyed out.

Anne
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