I'm up to create a Samba server which provides PDF-printers in a network. This server should rely on a special remastered Knoppix system. Once deployed in a network, the server should be accessible for configuration by a browser interface which allowes to create and configure those printer shares. The main advantage of this server should be the ability to email the "printed" documents to the user, who printed it. Very important for easy installation and management is to avoid _any_ user management, exept of having an alias list to alias user names to email addresses if required. It is assumed to allow _any_ user to print his documents. This means there is no need for any authentication. Now my problem: When I export my printers with "security = share" and "guest = ok" I get always the username "guest" out of the Samba variables. So I don't know who has printed. When I export my printers with any other security setting, I have to setup each user with password or join the server to some remote authentication system like NIS, LDAP, ADS or a NT-Domain. This should be avoided for ease of administration. In my opinion I need some authentication backend, which requests the username, when a user connects to a printer, and then always allowes access whithout looking for any password. If anyone has a hint for any way to solve this problem, please post. Also I'm able to create my own authentication module (in C) but didn't find any useful specification about the "authentication API" yet. If there are any useful links about this, please post. If you want to see my work so far, look at yafpc.net Thanks for all replies w. ullrich w.ullrich@n-view.net