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...on my machine. They have been compiled with: Samba: ./configure --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass --with-quotas --with-sys-quotas CUPS: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/cups --with-cups-user=cups --with-cups- group=cups --with-docdir=/usr/local/cups/docdir --with- logdir=/usr/local/cups/logdir --with-rcdir=/usr/local/cups/rcdir --enable-ssl As you can see, CUPS lies in an unusual path, so Samba did NOT see the cups- config file and was NOT linked to CUPS. Your documentation states that even without linking it should work fine, however, it doesn't. /etc/printcap contains: === # This file was au...