Hello all, I didn't receive any replies to my question the first time, so here it is again: The environemt is as follows - a university computer lab with clients running WinNT4.0 SP5, a Samba 1.9 server on DU4.0b and ppr as the printing daemon/accounting agent. Account A = generic NT lab machine login Account B = valid unix login with permissions to print The NT logins are necessarily different from the unix password file and this is creating problems. From what I've found, if I log into NT with account A, which does not exist in the password file, and try to print to a samba printer, the job disappears - no log, no error, nothing. If I then map a drive to that samba server using account B, I can print and everything is wonderful. It would be nice if NT would prompt the user for identification in the same way it does when one tries to map a network drive, with the "connect as:" and "password" dialogue box. What I'm seeing is that the network drive will use any identification supplied by the user but printing uses the NT operating system login ID. Has anyone out there encountered and/or overcome this? I'd also really like to force a reauthentication every time someone tries to print - any ideas? Revalidate does not work in this scenario. Thanks for your time, I'll summarize. -adam unix/nt sysadmin university of denver tel.303.871.2933 tel.303.871.3711 fax.303.871.4999 adam@du.edu