Hello, On Feb 6 13:11 Maurice O'Connor wrote (shortened):

I have 2 machines On machine-1 I am running Mandriva 2006. On machine-2 I am trying out Suse 10.0. My printers are hooked up to machine-1. I am trying to print from machine-2 but I am completely confused with the setup in YAST.

See http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jsmeix_print-cups-in-a-nutshell.html in particular the "Configuring CUPS in the Network" section but you may have to read the complete article to understand the meaning of the technical terms. Summary: You must allow print queue access on the Mandriva machine. You should send browsing information about the queues on the Mandriva machine. On the Suse machine you should do nothing (if the Suse machine is in the same network as the Mandriva machine) because by default the cupsd is running on the Suse machine (if not, start the cupsd on the Suse machine, you can use the YaST "Runlevel Editor" to do it). Note that the above support database article is not about how to set up the network correctly. For printing in the network the network must be set up correctly. See the printing chapter in the online Suse "Administration Manual" how you can test printing services in the network, Examples: On the Suse machine use netcat -z <IP_Mandriva_machine> 631 && echo OK || echo Failed and netcat -z <hostname_Mandriva_machine> 631 && echo OK || echo Failed to test whether you can access the cupsd on the Mandriva machine (which does not mean that the cupsd on the Mandriva machine allows to access its queues for printing on the Mandriva machine). If this works, then use on the Suse machine lpstat -h <IP_Mandriva_machine> -p and lpstat -h <hostname_Mandriva_machine> -p to test whether you can "see" the queues (in partiular the queue names) on the Mandriva machine. If this works, then use on the Suse machine echo Hello | lp -h <IP_Mandriva_machine> -d <Queuenamne> and echo Hello | lp -h <hostname_Mandriva_machine> -d <Queuenamne> to test whether you can print "Hello" via a queue on the Mandriva machine. Kind Regards, Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/