A few days back I had asked how to go about printing to AD in a Wintendo environment from my (not part of the domain) laptop. I found the answer. First off, I had been trying to print using SMB. This works for my home 'network' and I can print to my wife's Win2K computer using smb://192.168.0.101/lilly without a problem. In setting up my local Vista workstation, I had an issue, though. For some reason, smb printing does not work in the corporate world. However, this is still a non-issue. I just needed to figure out what to do. This page - http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambaprint.html - gave me the answer. I use ipp or Internet printing protocol. In the case of the vista workstation, I had forgotten to enable TCP/IP printing in Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off. In there, you enable LPD print services and LPR port monitor. This then lets me print using lpd as the protocol in CUPS: lpd://10.16.15.74/lj1320 That's lpd://ip.address.of.machine/shared_printer_name_with_no_spaces. As for the network printers - in the first case, I was trying to print using smb://username\password@server/printer. That doesn't fly. According to the page referenced above, I needed to use IPP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol) to print. In CUPS admin, I setup the printer to simply print to the IP address and the first queue: ipp://10.16.15.51/ipp Bingo! -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org