Printer Configuration

[Jonathan Hutchins]

One of the things that needs to be done now that I've converted all of my 
machines to SuSE is to set up printing.  Both of my printers, the LaserJet 4+ 
and the (pretty much dead) Lexmark Z43 are running off of the parallel ports 
on my NT4 server.  

On previous distributions (RedHat, Mandrake), it hasn't been to hard to get 
the systems to use the SMB shared printers.  

SuSE's primary configuration tool, YaST, supposedly manipulates the CUPS 
configuration, but YaST doesn't want to see the printers though, although it 
can see the NT SMB server.

SuSE defaults to a KDE desktop, and KDE has it's own print management tool.  
This comes with some pseudo priters pre-configured: a PDF converter, a 
PostScript converter,  two fax tools and a tool to email a PDF.  The Printer 
component of the KDE Control Center has a button for "Administrator Mode" - 
and here's where things get strange.

When clicked, this button pops up a dialog box for the root password.  On one 
of the systems, this results in an additional row of buttons across the top 
of the Control Center Printers window that allow adding printers and such.  
On the other two systems, it does NOTHING.

As far as I know, the only difference in these systems is the name of the user 
who's logged in.  The root accoutns are identical, and each system is 
managing it's own users.

Has anybody worked enough with either SuSE or KDE to have encountered this 
before?  Any suggestions specific ot the KDE printer configuration problem?