I have an Epson 820 connected to a computer. This computer is running samba and cups and is connected to a network so the printer is shared. I have another computer running Redhat and cups and it is able to print to the printer. When I try to print from a windows machine connected to the network it comes back as saying the printer is offline. I believe that cups has its own server on the host machine and that it talks with cups on the Redhat machine. The windows machine has to use samba and somehow samba is not communicating with cups. I have looked at the cups docs and saw were I had to set change two lines in the [printers] section. I did that and it didn't work. I am writing from work so I don't have access to the smbd.conf file to post the printer section. Does anyone have had similar experience with samba, cups, and windows? Thanks John Miller Software Developer Phone: 612-547-7573 Fax: 612-547-7580 Mail Stop: T23 MailTo:john.miller at rbcdain.com