Ok actually this situation is a little different then I thought: if I try to print from any KDE application (Kate, Konqueror, Kword) all the printers show up. If I call kprinter directly, or "echo "test" | kprinter" or try from a non-KDE app like AcroRead or Mozilla, then the printers list is empty. Any ideas?
On a LAN in a remote office I have setup up a printserver where the printers are installed locally, and I have told CUPS to be a server. All the client computers (about 30 of them) on the LAN are running SuSE 9.0 with CUPS installed, and CUPS automatically picked up the offered print queues on the client computers - very nice, very convenient.
However the following problem keeps occuring:
(I'm the helpdesk BTW, in a remote office) A user will come in to work, go to print (we print through the standard kprinter dialog box from KDE and QT apps), then report to me that there are no printers in the list. By the time I log in via ssh -X, open kate, and try to print a test page, all the printers are automatically back in the list.
I can't figure out what causes the printers to "fall off" the browse list (if I may call it that). <snip>
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