Hello list! The situation is as follows (Samba 3.0.x): I have two printers installed on my XP client. One on a Samba server on which I am the printer administrator and one on a Samba server I'm not. When I open the printers window, the client connects to both servers. After closing the window, the connection to the "non-administrator-server" remains open (=BAD), while the other is closed after some seconds (and the smbd disappears (=GOOD) ). The XP-client keeps a spoolss-pipe open, so the deadtime parameter has no effect. The problem is, that hundrets of users open their Word-documents in the morning and the default-printer object connects to the server and all this connections remain open although they are not used. Has anyone an idea, how I might change this? And perhaps an answere, what the reason is for the different behaviour on a server with or without admin rights? Greetings, Martin -- Martin Zielinski mz@seh.de Software Development SEH Computertechnik GmbH www.seh.de