Hi everyone: I am hoping to use Linux as a file and print server but it is all quite experimental at the moment. I have managed to suss (is it SuSE?) out the Internet settings to use the schools existing NT proxy server to do some surfing and I now have to dig in to samba to allow users to access the printer. I am not the school's technician but one of the IT teachers and as such I am in no man's land as far as access to the administration materials. My room is the opposite side of the school and I currently have a windows 98 machine with an HP LaserJet 5 hooked up to it that all of the other 15 windows 95 machines use. Win 98 is no file and print server so I am constantly plagued by complaints that it will not print. If the 95 machine goes into suspend, it dumps the printer off-line for that station and the student has to re-boot the machine a number of times before it re-connects to my computer to print. Usually they play Morse code with the print icon. Sometimes I come in with a new class full of kids, they all log an and see a message to print and I get about 5 dillion pages of wasted printouts before I can get them to cancel. As you can imagine, most annoying and time consuming. I am hoping that a Linux installation acting as a proper file server will enable me to control the queue and stop all the wastage? If anyone has this sort of set-up working I would appreciate the feedback. I am glad that Linux is making a breakthrough into schools and I think that my school (Westwood St. Thomas in Salisbury) will embark on this road quite strongly. We have currently 130+ stations in the school and the prospect of more on the way. With the inevitable (?) backward step of upgrading Microexploit products, we are looking at £10,000 in licenses alone. A suite of networked Linux machines running StarOffice is a much more attractive proposition. If I can get my microcosm to work I think I can better sell the idea to SMT. Bye, Paul ptaylor@uklinux.net