Well, today was the first time i tried to print from my 64 bit standard install 10.2 to a windoze printer. tried both name and intranet ip for the windoze machine adress, nothing worked. tried a new install on harware and fired up the cups web admin tool, all showed kosher and recognized and installed....but... no print. no it is not pwords, AND, even if it were, it should not be. fired up vmware inside my running linucs, opened up a windoze xp virtual os, moved the file i wanted to the shared folder in my linucs, virtual windoze found the hp7350 on the other windoze computer right away and...printed the job very quickly. if my son finds out that i printed the job from vmware but my native linucs failed, there will be no end to the harassment. I know that there must be a logical explanation for this, but that's not the point. finding a printer in another computer in a dynamically allocated ip addressing scheme should be as simple as in windoze, simpler if possible. that clearly is not the case for my biostar amd64 mobo, 3800+ chip, 2 gb ram, 10.2 STANDARD installation plus kernel source and gcc to compile vmware. coupled with the other headaches already in place, this is coming really close to closing the lid on 10.2. if i wanted windoze behavior, i would have bought windoze... now i must decide if i want to standardize on 10.0 or 10.1... any suggestions? tia, d --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+help@opensuse.org