Luca Ferrari wrote: > Hi, > I'm still fighting with the problem of the connection, but I'm experiencing > also another problem: if I try to print via smb/cups to a windows printer I > get cups in timeout (the server didn't respond in 10000 msec). The strange > thing is that I cannot connect to the printer via smbclient! > Now, If I create the printer via lpadmin the printer seems enabled, after the > first print the printer goes disabled and I cannot enable it back. > Any suggestion? Total shot in the dark, but what is your locale set to? We had a number of wide ranging problems, including printing and console applications, when we installed a new version of Linux on our desktop systems, a few years ago, which was caused by a change in the default locale (I think to a Unicode one!). Worth a look. Cheers Adam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html