Hi, i need your help! i have a running samba server here and print to it from a win 98 machine. this works very fine. but i cannot see the printer queue and for example hold a job. why??? i logged on the printer share with smbclient from anotherlinux machine and trid the "queue" command, and there also i could not see any qeued jobs. but lpq -Plp on the samba machine shows all the jobs which are queued. please help me! any ideas? heres some information: I'm running samba 2.0.5a on a linux with kernel 2.2.7 The lpd is PLP which is supported by samba. my smb.conf: # Samba config file created using SWAT # from noty.poml.net (192.168.100.100) # Date: 2000/11/12 21:29:19 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = FELSPOML netbios name = GROBI interfaces = 192.168.99.16/255.255.255.0 192.168.100.16/255.255.255.0 encrypt passwords = Yes log level = 3 log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m announce as = NT Workstation printing = plp print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -P%p %s lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P%p lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -P%p %j lppause command = /usr/sbin/lpc hold %p %s lpresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc release %p %s queuepause command = /usr/sbin/lpc stop %p queueresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc start %p [grobidruck] comment = Apple Personal Laserwriter NT path = /var/spool/samba read only = No create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes print ok = Yes printer name = lp printer driver = Apple Personal Laserwriter NT [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No create mask = 0750 Thank you for any help. This problem makes me crazy! I cannot find a solution! Philipp -- Philipp Poeml Institut fuer Mineralogie Uni Muenster Corrensstr. 24 48149 Muenster, Germany phone: +49-251-8333048 fax: +49-251-8338397 mailto: phil.poeml@gmx.de http://poemlhq.tsx.org