Hello, With a fresh SuSE 7.2 Pro installation with the StarOffice option, I have now installed CUPS 1.14, Gimp-print 4.2 ppd and XPP 1.1 on two hosts: A) the server to which the Epson Color Stylus 600 is normally attached. It works as a samba server and allows other windoze units on the home/office LAN to print to a "rawEpson" defined in CUPS. B) a notebook PC (both run SuSe 7.2) NIS, NFS etc is running OK for directory mounting but rather slow file transfer. The problem: access to the remote printer is denied. Note: This is the installation procedure that worked. I have Ghostscript 6.51 RPM from the SuSE FTP (to ensure that HylaFax would send), CUPS 1.14 (to be full featured) tar.gz, Gimp 1.2 RPM from SuSE 7.2, and Gimp-Print 4.2 tar.gz (because it worked after Foomatic just confused me) and XPP 1.1. Most important: to compile the tar.gz stuff. Check via YAST2 that the following are installed. glib, gtk (including their devel toolkits), flex, autoconf, automake, window-maker-devel. Uninstall fltk via YAST2 go to www.fltk.org and download FLTK 1.1 tar.gz. unzip it into a suitable directory (usr/src/packages/SOURCES/FLTK ) and then /configure make make install If the "make" still does not work check if any other stuff could not be found. (Note "make distclean" will cleanup any aborted stuff before you try to install again) if all goes OK then remove via YAST2 any printing stuff such as LDP and CUPS (older version) (if you don't CUPS browser will not be complete), GS 5.x and immediately use the RPM installation command to install the GS 6.51. (Note YAST2 will later complain that CUPS or one of the other three is not installed - ignore - discard it) Then install the GS 6.51 RPM (not via YAST2) Then install CUPS as per the CUPS documents instruction page in linuxprinting.org Note: do install the cupsomatic and the foomatic (I do not know if foomatic is really necessary; it is still a mystery). Do restart cups or reboot when the linuxprinting.org instructions say. Test CUPS using a standard ppd via the browser tool http://localhost:631 (so friendly) for your printer that comes with it. Install the print-gimp (read the readme) with the ./configure -with-gimp -with-cups options. Boot again. Use the CUPS browser to configure your printer again; this time with a gimp-print ppd (note that they still have a multiple entry bug - just select the first entry for your printer). Now you should have lots of printer configuration commands. Install XPP and then issue the xpp command to see the XPP window with your already configured printer. You can define various instances of this printer (gray, economy, photo, viewgraph etc). Configure StarOffice as per the instructions in www.linuxprinting,org/ppd-doc.html Then you have a really nice level of control. Well, it worked for me .... Now, back to the present problem: remote CUPS printing - access denied. in /etc/cups/cups.conf set BrowseAddress 192.168.0.255 (for example) then the remote browser will see the printers on the server. Next problem: Attempting a test print or configuration caused access denied "you don't have permission to access the resource on this server" I checked /etc/hosts.deny and hosts.allow and explicitely listed the possible hosts on the local network 192.186.0.2 , 192.186.0.3 etc. After rebooting a test print still causes the message "Forbidden you don't have permission to access the resource on this server." Also observed: While the server printer is idle, accepting jobs (as seen on the server browser) the same printer is shown as "printer busy, will retry in 10 seconds ...." What should I check next ......? (Also what is necessary to configure StarOffice and Gimp etc on the notebook for the remote printer i.e. the printer name string ?) -- John