Regarding using Windows as a print server - DON'T! Windows cannot handle large print jobs, the spooler goes to sleep, causing real problems. I have seen it many a time. For instance if you are printing a 200 page word document to a network printer and another computer spools a small print job. You will find that part way through the 200 page print job Windows will stop spooling the data long enough for the printer to start printer the other print job. This will reset all the page setup and when the Windows spooler gets around to sending the next bit of data the page layout will be lost. So much for a multi-tasking operating system which can't spool data properly to a printer. CUPS is a far superior product in so many ways. People may complain about the difficulties in configuring CUPS but at least it works. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------