root user cannot print files within home directories

[D G Teed]

This problem is odd.  There are home directories in both /export/home,
which is part of /, and others under /usr/local/home

Users can print files in user home directories.
Root user can print files such as /etc/group, a test file copied to /tmp
or something like /usr/local/doc/ncdu/AUTHORS

If root tries to print a file within a user home dir, even
using the current working directory, there is a response
of simply "timeout".  e.g.

bash-3.00# cd ~user
bash-3.00# pwd
/export/home/user
bash-3.00# cat test
This is a test file from the new server
bash-3.00# lp -d laser test
ts-laser-uh: timeout
bash-3.00# cp test /tmp/
bash-3.00# lp -d laser /tmp/test
request id is laser-201 (1 file(s))

Non-root users can print from those areas, provided
they have permissions to read the file of course.

This is happening on Solaris 10 sparc.

Anyone seen this before or have hints on areas to investigate?

--Donald Teed