The overall question is where is the information on printers displayed in the system-config-printer gui interface coming from other than the files in /etc/cups directory? Let me specific. On a machine Atlas02 their appears in the gui interface that a printer called portia can be shared from a machine with the IP 132.193.131.60. This information appears in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file as a line that says: Allow from 132.193.131.60 Now the problems. When one issues a lpc status command the result is a large number of entries like: portia@Atlas02: printer is on device '/dev/null' speed -1 queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries daemon present portia@Atlas03: printer is on device '/dev/null' speed -1 queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries daemon present These appear for all of our 5 printers and 50 machines. That makes no sense but they can removed by removing the Allow from 132.193.131.60 line from the cupsd.conf file. However the gui still thinks the printer portia is shared with the machine at 132.193.131.60. So where am I going wrong. Is there another database that system-config-printer is using? -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx