Hi Maybe I missed something, but I think the problem can be simply solved by letting lpr making a copy - and deleting the file samba created - lpr -P %p %s ; rm %s (%p ist the printer, %s is the filename - hope this is correct) mfg, fgp ____________________________________________________________ E-Mail: fgp@fgp.atnet.at (Mail me for my PGP 5.0 public key) ____________________________________________________________ This Mail was created with: __ ___ / / / / / / \_/ / / ___ ___ __ __ __ __ / / / / / /__ / / / / \ \/ / / / / / / __ \ / / / / \ / / ----/ / / / / / / / /__/ / / \ /_______/ /__/ /__/ /__/ /______/ /__/\__\