On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 17:33, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > I'm not answering your question directly, because to do so, > I'd need to see your CUPS configuration. > > That aside, have you considered setting up your Windows > Server with a LPD or an IPP queue for the printer? > > If you can, avoid SMB printing -- for countless reasons. > God knows I do so even for Windows clients. > Microsoft's own NT reliability studies show the NT spooler is > the reason why NT crashes/hangs 8% of the time. > I second that. Many months ago I finally enabled LPD printing on the windows print server an linux to windows printing has been much simpler and less trouble ever since. SMB printing was always a problem and it required exposing a windows password.