I'm pounding this laptop in to the ground using my fingers :o) I have a printer on my home network, one is connected to W2K server and shared as "Deskjet" I can print from my Redhat box, I'm running Samba on that machine. so I know Linux can print using that printer. My Debian laptop does not have Samba installed, I'm not sure I want to install it as it takes almost 12 megabytes of disk space. "df" says filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 170274 86777 74706 54% / I would need a printcap local that looks like this to print to a remote printer. # REMOTE djet695 :lp=:\** :rm="machine":\ :rp="printer":\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: I get "lpr: cannot open remote" the remote hosts.allow has the machine name in it. the remote hosts has the ip and name in it. I must be missing something... do I need an entry to "ssh"? Sam. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list