Printer Configuration

[Zscoundrel]

Double check that samba is working.  I had absolute fits with printer 
setup until I found and fixed a typo in my samba config. 

(In my case this would be classified as a LIveware QUality Obfuscated 
Reality issue - I had one too many beers before I tried to configure the 
SMB shares on the 'doze box!)

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>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?
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