On Monday 13 February 2006 19:26, Jeff Vian wrote: Hi, Jeff. There doesn't seem to be any easy answer to this. > > system-config-printer is not cups. > Configure them with your browser at localhost:631 to set the printers up > in cups. > That's what I did first, but couldn't get them to be shareable. > I had problems with remote hosts using my local printer when set up > using system-config-printer but when I used cups it seemed ridiculously > easy. > I set them up with system-config-printer this afternoon, and the laptop connected with them immediately, listing them in system-config-printer. This evening I moved on to working on the workstation, and so far haven't managed to persuade system-config-printer to pick up the networked printers, so I'm not yet printing on this box. It's always a mystery when something works on one computer and not on another. This mystery will have to wait for morning, though :-) Anne