I've run out of ideas. Can anyone help me solve this problem? Jerome.
It appears you have permission problems with browsing. Yast does not really setup the configuration files properly for a LAN install.
The easiest way to fix the problem is to edit the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on the machine which has the printer connected. This file is very well commented.
Before you start please backup this file so that if you muck up anything you can revert back.
Now with your favourite editor open /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and go down to about Line 50 you will see #ServerName myhost.domain.com Add a new entry after this line as ServerName <your full server name> e.g If your server is known as fred and your domain is linux you would add ServerName fred.linux
At Line 420 you will see ######## ######## Browsing Options ########
From there go down to about Line 478 #BrowseAddress x.y.255.255 #BrowseAddress x.255.255.255 Now add in BrowseAddress <Your IP Address.255> eg if your ip address is say 10.11.12.1 you would enter BrowseAddress 10.11.12.255
Further down add in BrowseAllow
e.g as per above IP address BrowseAllow 10.11.12.* THat should get you going. There are a number of other options you can add in latter in this file. Save the file and restart cups.
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On the client machine edit /etc/cups/client.conf and go to line 40 and add in your server name the same as you did before e.g ServerName fred.linux
You should now be able to print from the client machine now.
And so it is;I can! Thankyou, Jerome