Help: I have spent too much of the past two days trying to set up printing from a win2k machine to a samba server running SuSE 9.0. I can browse shares on the server, even a DVDROM, from the windows machine and have been able to install both printers on the server (a Lexmark E322 on the parallel port and HP psc950 on a USB port) onto the windows machine. They both show "ready" but when I try to print a test page nothing happens (nor have I been able to print from an application). After a few minutes the test page message shows up on the windows machine asking me to check OK or trouble shoot, but nothing happens on the printer. When I check the /var/log/cups/error_log I find the following lines: D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] AcceptClient() 6 from localhost:631. D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] ReadClient() 6 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0 D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] ReadClient() 6 POST /printers/psc950 HTTP/1.1 D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] print_job: auto-typing file... D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] print_job: request file type is application/octet-stream. D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'ggriffin' D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] print_job: requesting-user-name = 'ggriffin' I [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] Adding start banner page "none" to job 63. I [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] Adding end banner page "none" to job 63. I [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] Job 63 queued on 'psc950' by 'ggriffin'. D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] Job 63 hold_until = 0 D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] StartJob(63, 0x809e510) D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] StartJob() id = 63, file = 0/1 E [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 63! I [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed? D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] CancelJob: id = 63 D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0 D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] CloseClient() 6 D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] AcceptClient() 6 from localhost:631. D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] AcceptClient() 8 from localhost:631. D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] ReadClient() 8 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [27/Dec/2003:15:35:50 -0700] ProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=1 I do have ESP Ghostscript installed. I've also uncommented these lines in the /etc/cups/mime.convs file: application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - and mime.types file: application/octet-stream that, according to some samba printing information I've found, is supposed to allow printing from windows machines. The error message is the same with both printers. I've tried following the windows trouble shooting guide without success, including attempting to redirect a local printer port to the server printer using the "net use" command. For some reason when I try to do that the windows computer can't find the server printer although I double checked to make sure I'm entering the correct name. (Again, both printers are visible from the windows machine when I browse, or look for them when adding a printer.) I can print to the Lexmark via samba from an old iBook running Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 so samba seems to be set up properly, but I have the same problem printing with the psc950 from the iBook as from the windows machine. Bother printers print fine from the server machine, both test pages and from applications. Any suggestions would be appreciated as my meager knowledge has been exhausted at this point and I've not been able to locate any helpful information in the SuSE support database or through Google. Thanks, George -- George H. Griffin Powered by SuSE Linux 9.0, kernel 2.4.21 "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps" Emo Philips