Thanks Jim. I feel honored when I get a response from you in person, pretty darn cool. I am using Ubuntu, but I am using LTSP 4.2 not MUkow. I am also using cups (via the (gnome-cups-manager) to manage printers. The printer is shared via smb://  Using your example below would I just do something similar to: case `echo $DISPLAY | sed s/:.*$//` in   ws004)   lpoptions -d smb://pathtoprinter;;   ws005)   lpoptions -d smb://pathtootherprinter; esac Thanks again for your help. John <div> On 1/28/07, Jim McQuillan <<a href="mailto:jam@mcquil.com">jam@mcquil.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> John, what you are trying to do, really isn't LTSP related at all. It just so happens that your users are connection with LTSP terminals, and the printers are attached to LTSP terminals.  Other than that, it's really a printer management issue on the server. You want one users default printer to be printerA, and another users default printer to be printerB. Assuming that you've got your printers all configured in CUPS on the server, you can use the 'lpoptions' command to set a default for each user. Because a user may log into ws004 in the morning, and then log into ws005 in the afternoon, you'll need to call lpoptions each time the user logs in.  the /etc/profile script might be a good place to put this. The magic scripting you'll need to add is something like this: case `echo $DISPLAY | sed s/:.*$//` in   ws004)   lpoptions -d printerA;;   ws005)   lpoptions -d printerB;; esac That way, each time a user logs in, it checks the current terminal that they are logging in with, and it sets their default printer accordingly. If you are using Ubuntu's LTSP, you can't use the $DISPLAY, you'll have to use another env variable, like $SSH_CLIENT, which has a different format.  do:  echo $SSH_CLIENT to see what the value looks like. Hope that helps, Jim McQuillan <a href="mailto:jam@Ltsp.org">jam@Ltsp.org </a> john wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to use networked printing on my thin clients and specify it per > station ( e.g tell ws004 to print to networked printer A and ws005 to > print to networked printer B). > > My reading of lts.conf it appears to say that one can only do this > with local printers. Can anyone help me figure out if what I want to > do is possible? > > TIA! > > John </blockquote></div>