Making a printer def "stick"

["M.Hockings" <veeshooter hockings net>]

I now have three working RH systems running at home two RH8 for two of 
the kids and a FC1 "server".  My problem is this, and it seems to be 
common to all the machines.

I define a printer for the system, it is on the lan and can be connected 
to via SMB or LPR.  (I have tried both and the result is the same.)  It 
works fine, prints test pages just peachy.  Next someone else logs into 
the machine, starts OpenOffice or the like then goes to print their work 
-- the printer is not there.  If I open the printer tool from their id 
it says no printers.  So I say make a new one.  Then the original 
printer definition is visible.  So I just quit, and it asks "save 
changes" -- no changes were made though, but I save anyway. Quit out of 
the printer tool, restart OpenOffice and voila the printer is there and 
will print.  Then next time a user logs into the machine it is the same 
thing.  I am sure that my kids can manage to do this if I give them the 
root pwd but I'm hesitant to do this -- I've moved them to Linux in an 
attempt to reduce the time I have to spend "fixing"their machines ;-)

Any thoughts about how to make the printer definition stay?  It is set, 
as far as I can tel, as the default printer in all cases but seems to 
disappear.  I suspect it may be an authority thing, that is, it only 
becomes visible to the user after running the printer tool (which 
requires the root pwd).

Kind regards,

Mike