Just wanted to share my relief.: I have suze 9.2, cups, hp970cxi and win98 box. I could not add the printer on the win98-box I tried for two evenings to add a network printer : \\sambabox\hp1 I never succeded - the driver was bad - or so the printer-add-wizard told me. Finally I tricked the win98 box by saying the printer was local - on lpt1. Now the printer properties looked normal. I finally changed the port from lpt1: to \\sambabox\hp1. And Everybody was still happy. I don't know if anybody out there still uses win98. But if You do the above maybe could spare You some grief. Kind regards JJ -- Gmail: 2+ gigabyte mail....enough for several days!