It was a CUPS problem. I had to comment out several of the "Require" directives in cupsd.conf and now things work fine.
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 00:02 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 23:50 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > I'm running the Evolution groupware stuff in Gnome on a Gentoo-based > > desktop box. I have several printers available, both locally and on the > > network, managed by CUPS, however Evolution refuses to use them, > > apparently by configuration or design. When I try to print, the "Print" > > button is greyed and disabled. All printers are listed in the printer > > listing, but the only selection I can make in this list which will > > enable the Print button is "Print to File". > > > > Any ideas? > > When I run Evolution from a CLI, I get the following message when I try > to select one of the printers in the printing dialog: > > ** (evolution:18664): WARNING **: NOT IMPLEMENTED: We need to prompt for > authorization in a non blocking manner > > I have exactly the same version of Evolution (2.22.3.1) running on my > laptop (running Ubuntu) and it has no problem with printing. > > I'm not sure if I should file a bug on this or not, since there seems to > be some (misguided!) intention behind it.
