Thanks for everyone's help. You gave me enough direction to get going again. I got the printer working as direct connect to Linux. Couple of minor problems but I'm convinced I could have gotten them sorted out. However, the remote interface continued to be a problem. After several days of effort, unfortunately, I've decided to give up and put the printer back on my Win2k machine. Lots of reasons, - Apparently Win2k changed the rules on printer interaction (vs. Win98) so lots of docs (and components) aren't quite right - HP's install is so tight with desktop Win2K that I think they forgot about other types of installs (literally, attach printer, run install CD, go to other Win2K machine and print). - Slackware's current Samba probably doesn't work with Win2k remote print (based on news lists comments) - Several components which might help (ex. CUPS) don't seem to have current packages for Slack - The printer is too new. Its not on common driver lists yet (ex. not listed by Mandrake yet) - I'm getting burned out with Slack. I really like it for my file server. Clean, simple, just works. But changing any little thing requires a big learning process. And Patrick's dropped his forums, making it harder to get newbie support. I need to try Mandrake or Redhad for a while. But the biggest reason is that I've realized I'm just not far enough along in Linux yet. There's just too many concepts I haven't quite internalized and too many skills I haven't quite gotten comfortable with. I suspect that if I try this again in six months it will go much smoother. Not fair for me to eat up your time or this bandwidth just because I'm trying to go too far too fast. So thanks again for your help. Even though I didn't get my printer working, it was still a good learning experience. -- Doug Douglas Mosman wrote: > Please point a bewildered & befuddled newbie in the right direction > > I would really appreciate it if someone could "narrow" the field for me > here.I have now got my Linux file server working and would like to add a > print server to the system. <snip> > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list