I still have not figured out how to get the printer status (list of jobs etc..) to show up in the w2k printer windows. most printing is working well with this exception, I print from an email from outlook and the bold H gets left out. Different emails, different fonts, but always the capital H. Here is the system. RH7.3 compiled cups from cups.org 1.1.15 (and printing with it) samba 2.2.5 from RH RPM main printer is minolta d350 although there are queues set up for several hp4000's that work. no print status for any printer. On another note I started this network about 10 years ago with 5 pc's on a peer to peer. It is still setup pretty much as a work group. is it worth trying to get samba to act as a PDC and move forward that way? Currently we have 45 client pc's and 6 servers (4 samba, 1 netware, 1 w2k) on the network plus a lot of machine tools and I would really like make admin easier. I know just enough windows server stuff to be dangerous. The current w2k server I do not what to change at all because it is dedicated to running one piece of software that we can't get support on if we add to it. Will I get less network traffic on a domain rather that a workgroup? Thanks. Tony McGrew WWW.Multicam.com -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed