All,<br><br>The Tech Coord installed a new printer yesterday. Printing to it works if using the cups web interface. But ... not a single application on the system can now print to anything. e.g. Firefox and Staroffice both only show generic printer. lpstat -a hangs and returns nothing. On the other k12ltsp server, lpstat -a returns a list of all printers installed for the school, including the printers on the misbehaving system, so cups is working.
<br><br>So ... any ideas what has broken? I would guess it is some authentication/privelege issue on a file/directory that lp wants to use, but which one? When the tech coord installed the printer, he said that Toshiba instructed him to 'just launch the self-extracting archive' for the printer that was delivered. I have no idea what this did since my normal way of installing a new printer is to just get the ppd file and use it.
<br><br>Additional info: Printing to printers attached to this system work if printing from any other system, so the cups interface seems to be working properly. <br><br>????<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Dave Hopkins<br><br>