> I still suspect that irt is not quite right to have a local queue on the > linux box that then fires the job off to yet another queue on the XP box,
That's what's happening, and there's a good reason for it: you can spool jobs while the billyserver reboots, or gets reinstalled to clean this week's virus. > but I am not sure how else to do it Set it up as a different queue type. (Tick one different box in yast, but haven't tried yet.) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.