We have recently had a tussle with Samba and CUPS serving print services to a WinNT network. Herewith a summary as there is nothing on it in the archives Config: Caldera 2.3, Samba 2.0.6, cups 1.0.5 Samba happily serving disk shares Added the printers and promptly got 2 things - cups error log fills with complaints about /printers/homes not being a valid resource Solution: remove the [printers] share and explicitly share each printer the Samba log shows that the grumble is in response to the lpq polling for the queue - no print from the NT boxes, although the file goes to the spool directory on the server Solution: explicitly declare the path to lpr; the default config refers to /usr/bin/lpq and /usr/bin/lprm, but only to lpr (not /usr/bin/lpr) Also struck the following - when printing from WinNT an invalid file, directory or volume name is reported Solution: make sure that the user trying to print has a valid userid (including a shell) on the mail server, or enable guest access to the service. David Hawke -------------------------------------------------------------------- David Hawke Ph: 0-9-624 2242 mailto:dvh@paradise.net.nz (Home) Fax: 0-9-624 2236 mailto:dvh@gtech.co.nz (Work) Mob: 0-21-995 773