Sorry about the other dumb Q. My book was useless on it. 5 min of searching on novell site sorted the mac name space thing. Next excitement is trying to get a print queue going directly off the server for my mac to print to. I've been through the chap on printing but nowhere does it tell you how to load the printer driver on the server. The printer is directly off the server. Printer is a hp deskjet 1000c. TIA as always.

Typically, with Que-based printing, the print driver is loaded at the workstation. In W9X the printer is simply set up as a network printer. Not sure about Mac. At any rate, printing is done just as though the printer is attaced locally.

Thanx for your reply. Mmm just like under a NT or win2k printserver. I thought that would be the case so I tried it. (Oh by the way I'm testing it on a win2k client before I try it on my mac.) Told me the server didn't have the driver loaded. Just for clarification is this correct: 1. test the printer port on the server, ie. print from dos (it is a known good printer). 2. setup the netware nds stuff ie. print Q, printer etc. 3. Load pserver.nlm on the server 4. Go "Add Printer" on the win2k box and make it a network printer pointing to the Printer object on the server (normally P1 by default). 5. Click on the big red N and capture LPT1 to the network printer you have just created on the win2k client. 6. Merrily print

I'm not familiar with W2K but with 9X it is not necessary to capture the port. That is done when the printer is setup. Be sure that your printer object is configured as local to the server and not remote. Open the printer object, configuration tab, communication button. A good check is to open the print server object and check the print layout tab. You should be able to see all three objects with no error messages. Also, open the queue object, uncheck "allow service by current print servers", send a print job, and check to be sure it makes it to the queue. Then recheck the box and see if the job moves through. Good luck. Oh yeah, if you continue to have problems, try the Print services quick setup under tools in NW Admin. Tends to minimize mistakes.