ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTION the client shared printer is "mounted" on the server for a simple reason. My script printit.php SHOULD print on the client printer... in fact the script open this shared printer and prints only if I use the form $printer = "\\\\"."CLIENTPCNAME"."\\"."PRINTERSHARENAME"; $handle = printer_open($printer); -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php