my wife and i both have dell laptops issued by our respective companies. she has win2k, and i winxp. both are on my 802.11b network, and i share my printer using cups. you can have these two print to the printer by setting up a local printer in the control panel to print to a new port... gah, it's really hard to explain.... i just did a google search on the subject, and this page pretty much describes the process: http://www.cpmc.columbia.edu/support/guides/winnt_printing/ winnt_print_guide4.html On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 07:38 AM, Richard Clark wrote: > Thanks will try all of above and see what happens first gonna put in > win 2000 then go from there. > On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 15:57 Europe/Rome, Michael Adams wrote: