Hello list,
My customer has 5 computers, 2 with a local printer each, and 2 LAN printers in a network.
OS: openSUSE 11.3
CUPS: 1.4.6
LAN:
IP Hostname Alias
192.168.1.82 admin1.xxx.yyy admin1
192.168.1.64 admin2.xxx.yyy admin2
192.168.1.85 admin3.xxx.yyy admin3
192.168.1.84 admin4.xxx.yyy admin4
192.168.1.83 admin5.xxx.yyy admin5
admin1 and admin2 have a local printer, shared through CUPS to be remotely available for admin2, admin4, and admin5.
After booting admin2, admin4 and admin5 no longer show a printer connection to the printers on admin1 and admin3, but the 2 LAN printers are shown and ready to print to.
What has been tested:
Pinged on every computer the other computers in the LAN, both by IN and Hostname and Alias.
All results were OK.
Successfully established FTP connections across all computers.
Added the “missing” computers in YaST.
Printers showed in CUPS and reported “idle”
Printed a test on admin2, admin4, and admin5 using Acroread. All prints finished without errors.
Checked in CUPS, and the connections were lost.
YaST did not show the printers anymore.
The YaST System Services reported that CUPS was no longer running.
Restart CUPS and all works again.
This problem started last Thursday, according to my customer, after admin2 and admin3 received an error message from KWin, forcing them to terminate the current application.
No additional software was installed on any of the systems. Automatic updates occur every Friday evening.
I hope somebody can shine a light on this problem, so perhaps I can fix this problem for my customer.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Dick Davis