This is driving me crazy. I have samba server set up and apparently working fine, I can browse to the SuSE box from Win98 and install the printer with no issues. When I print, however, nothing seems to make it to the printer. I can see the print job as 'active' in CUPS, but nothing prints. I've googled, read the CUPS and Samba sections of the SuSE admin manual, read more than I ever wanted to know about both CUPS and Samba, but I cannot see where the problem is. I tried to simplify things by trying to use the PDF Creator to see what is going on, but it too fails to print, it dumps a strange message in var/log/messages Aug 1 15:31:25 helphand smbd[19043]: [2004/08/01 15:31:25, 0] lib/substitute.c:alloc_sub_basic(505) Aug 1 15:31:25 helphand smbd[19043]: alloc_sub_basic: NULL source string! This should not happen helphand:/etc/samba # No too encouraging when the software tells you 'this should not happen' <g> My /etc/samba/smb.conf file looks like this.... # smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented # version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE # Date: 2004-07-21 [global] load printers = yes printer = hp_deskjet720c logon drive = P: domain master = false username map = /etc/samba/smbusers map to guest = Bad User encrypt passwords = yes logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile printer admin = @ntadmin, root, administrator passdb backend = smbpasswd printcap cache time = 750 netbios name = helphand cups options = raw printing = cups use client driver = yes server string = Samba Server path = /var/tmp ldap suffix = dc=example,dc=com local master = no workgroup = LEIGHTON logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile debug level = 2 printcap name = cups security = user preferred master = auto add machine script = domain logons = no [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S browseable = no read only = No inherit permissions = Yes guest ok = no printable = no [profiles] comment = Network Profiles Service path = %H read only = No store dos attributes = Yes create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 browseable = yes guest ok = no printable = no [users] browseable = no printable = no inherit permissions = Yes writable = yes path = /home guest ok = no comment = All users veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/ [groups] comment = All groups path = /home/groups read only = No inherit permissions = Yes browseable = yes guest ok = no printable = no [pdf] create mask = 0600 comment = PDF creator print command = /usr/bin/smbprngenpdf -J '%J' -c %c -s %s -u '%u' -z %z printable = yes public = yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/tmp printable = yes create mask = 0600 browseable = no guest ok = no [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/drivers write list = @ntadmin root force group = ntadmin create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 browseable = yes guest ok = no printable = no [Deskjet722] printer = hp_deskjet720c comment = Deskjet 722 printable = yes public = yes path = /var/tmp Again, all of my attempts do result in the print job ending up as completed CUPS jobs so clearly the Win98 box talks to the SuSE box and gets that far. They just never make it to the printer. If anyone has any ideas on where I can look I would sure appreciate pointers. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.5-7.95-default x86_64