What happened to my printer!?!

[Rick Stevens]

On 09/09/2013 02:13 PM, Alan Evans issued this missive:
> Hello all,
>
> Sometime in the last couple of weeks, I lost my ability to print to the
> office printer. If I check (KDE) System Settings, the printer's status
> reads, "Paused - 'Unable to connect to CIFS host after (tried 3
> times)'". Everybody else can still use this printer, and there have been
> no major network reconfiguration events recently. I can't figure out how
> to bring this back online.
>
> I tried to simply re-add the long-existing printer again, but the "Add a
> New Printer" dialog won't let me browse the network for any printers at
> all. The [Browse] button under "Windows Printer via SAMBA" is greyed
> out, so I would have to type the URI by hand. But the URI is correct in
> the configuration of the current, non-working, printer, as far as I know.
>
> Is there any way to figure out why the current printer is offline,
> beyond "Unable to connect"? Not being able to print is really messing
> with my workflow.

Well, since it seems to be a Windows printer (e.g. a print spooler
running on a Windows box), did they change the authentication at that
end? Did you change the firewall settings on your box so that Samba
stuff is blocked now?
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