[TriLUG] Cups in Sarge giving me a headache

[Brian Henning]

Hi again!
   Now the problem I am having is with CUPS in Sarge.  I have a printer 
mapped (network HPLJet4 hosted on a Windows XP host running Unix 
printing service)..  lpd://the.host.ip/sharename...  And everything 
seems to behave normally; no error messages crop up.  But when I try to 
print something....nothing happens.  Nothing at all!  It's as if the 
machine gobbled up the print job and didn't even burp.  For example:

$ lpr somehugeimage.ps
and then immediately:
$ lpq
HPLaserJ is ready
no entries

somehugeimage.ps is large enough that it should be spending some time in 
the local print queue.  On a FC2 machine which has a working connection 
to the printer in question, behavior is as expected--the job goes into 
the local queue and a few minutes later is waiting for me at the printer.

The /etc/cups/printer.conf entries on both machines are identical.  The 
only difference that I can see immediately is the Sarge machine uses 
GIMP-Print and the FC2 machine uses Foomatic.  Could that be it?

Thanks as always for the input!

~Brian