As many suspected all I needed to do to get printing on my home network solved is to fix the contents of the cupsd.conf file and make a tweak in the clients.conf file of one of my machines that has its own local printer. This has been bothering me for 6 months but it just cam up to the head of the "must do" file. It therefore works on a system connected to a DHCP supplied router. It works on FC4 and FC5 systems if that is important to anyone. Thanks to all who put their oar in the water of my problem. A mixed metaphor if I have ever see one, -- ======================================================================= Somebody's terminal is dropping bits. I found a pile of them over in the corner. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx