Hello All: Please excuse my made up fictitious names and IPs. I have a printer that was setup such as xxxt1 but in the hosts file on the HP system (11.0 HP-UX) the printer name is xxxlbl1 I setup the samba printer share with the name xxxlbl1 My question is will the samba printer share work with the name xxxt1 if the name is aliases in the /etc/hosts file such as (fictitious IP) 181.22.14.43 xxxlbl1 xxxt1 Or how does the samba mechanism work when it gets a name from the host server? Is the hosts file the controlling factor? Thanks for your help.