VArious people, including me, have reported difficulty printing to printers on other boxes in networks using Festen and/or Venus. I have an UGLY solution for now. In /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter The lines if [ "$PRINTER_TYPE" = "SMB" ]; then bestpath="$bestpath | ${FPIDIR}/smbprint ${SPOOLDIR}/acct" change to if [ "$PRINTER_TYPE" = "SMB" ]; then bestpath="$bestpath | /usr/bin/smbprint ${SPOOLDIR}/acct" AND change /var/spool/lpd/lp/.config to read server=SERVERNAME # name your server here For example mine is a windows box called testrig so I # enter server=TESTRIG service=PRINTERNAMEONSERVER # here mine is called HPWIN because it is a stupid winprinter password='whatever_password_is_assigned' # For mine, anything will work since I haven't set one user='username' #optional logfile=/tmp/errorlog_for_printer_hpwin #logfile=/dev/null #works too I get output which I did not have before. Plain ASCII seems to go to limbo on the printer test, but all else seems to print OK Civileme ANALYSIS: The FPIDIR variable appears to point to a path where smbprint is a directory rather than a filter.