Ok sending again, I'm hoping someone has ran into this an knows a solution or maybe give me some pointers on the below problem with cups. jack I'm using suse 9.1 here on our production server with samba running. Its seems several times a month printing will stop to one or all of the printers I have attached via network to this server. To solve the problem I kill all cupsd, then go into the queue an delete all old an current print jobs in the queue, then restart cupsd. Then I go an send a test print job from server to one or two of the printer an everything works again til the next time it happens. It was only happening once a month but now it seems to happen more often. Just wondering if anyone has seen this problem an know a fix. Its not that hard to go thrue the procedure I go thrue above for me but I'm im gone then my boss tends to forgit what to do . He has pretty much left it up to me with the linux server an know very little about it. thanks in advance. jack malone Network Administrator EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES 903-595-3444 http://www.horizonind.com