[/quote]I appreciate that. I thought Ubuntu used Gnome rather than KFE or the lightweights like XFCE, but in any case the Fedora CUPS defaults are likely to be common across most distros. And distros using CUPS will have similar tools for configuring CUPS: now you know where to start looking. Martin[/quote] Actually I looked into the web config that comes with cups. It allows one to access these settings like "Share published printers connected to this system". It was already active.