CUPS Network printer adds, but won't print...

My USB printer works fine, but my network printer is a much cheaper black and white laserjet that I normally print to. The problem is, I can add the printer just fine; the drivers and everything add just fine. When I go to actually print, I get the error message...
"Unable to locate printer '(enter printer name here)'".
The GNOME diagnostic tool recommends to go to System>Administration>Printing and enable it in the Policies tab, but every time I try that it almost immediately disables. The printer is a Brother HL-2170w, connected through our wireless network. This printer has worked with other distributions before, is there some user setting I'm missing?
Thanks!

Have you given your printer a static IP or dhcp reservation address?
I'm not really sure but isn't it just that your Arch setup doesn't have a way of resolving the printers hostname. The printer is using NetBIOS for broadcasting its name. I think you need a service on your arch setup that can resolve NetBIOS names or otherwise just use the printers IP.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52592
You could set your system up to use avahi and then instead of the putting the printers ip you could use the resolved name. For example on my computer once the avahi daemon is running
[craig@eee ~]$ avahi-resolve-host-name -a 192.168.1.150
192.168.1.150 BRN001BA903A786.local
then just use the BRN001BA903A786.local as the address
lpd://BRN001BA903A786.local/BINARY_P1
Last edited by carseneau (2010-03-03 21:50:44)

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