Hi all, I am trying to get decent printer status without timeouts in windows xp (no sp1 installed). When I installed the printer it gave access denied, unable to connect but it printed the test page fine. I rebooted, logged in as normal user and tried to access the printer configuration folder. It took a long while but in the end it gave an ok status on the particular printer, when opening the spool it said that it was still initiasing but I could print ok. Then I logged in as root again, same thing. I am using samba as sole server in the domain, access rights are all ok, I can login to the domain as domain user, I am using cups, tried the lprng setting in smb.conf as well with no change to the status problem. I am using normal windows pcl printer drivers. I can print when logged into the linux box and I can ask for printqueue status as normal non-priviliged linux user. I have played around with chmod 777 and the /var/spool/cups and /var/spool/samba without having a resolution to my problem. Could it have something to do with the following error? [2003/02/12 10:26:20, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(1721) call_trans2qfilepathinfo: vfs_stat of shell32.dll failed (No such file or directory) [2003/02/12 10:26:20, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(94) error string = No such file or directory [2003/02/12 10:26:20, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(113) error packet at smbd/trans2.c(1723) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2) NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND It's the only one I get in the samba logs and they are multiple between the spoolss rpc's. Cups is not giving any error messages. Here are the printer settings in my smb.conf: printcap name = cups printer admin = " @"Domain Admins" " printing = cups [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No If someone can point me my problem and/or a solution please do. Thanks in advance. Regards, Bas