Putting a print server on a firewall is a really bad idea - akin to shooting yourself in the foot, maybe even your head. There is no redundancy in case you make a configuration error, which could open up the box to exploitation from the Internet, and malicious activity from the inside as well. In your case, you rebuilt your box and deprived the LAN of Internet service. To answer your question - no. What did your logs tell you? Regards, George "Paranoid by Nurture, not Nature." -- Original message --- Subject: printing Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:46:03 -0700 From: "Brett Bunker" Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To: I have set up a Red Hat 7.2 server that acts as a print server and firewall for a small business. They use Windows 2000 for their file server and clients. Last week The printing just stopped. You could not print from the server or any clients. I could not find any jobs stuck in the queue or any error messages that gave me any clues to what happened. When I tried to restart lpd it would not stop. When I rebooted the server it came up as failed when the system tried to stop it. I upgraded the LPRng package from Red Hat but still had the same problem. I ended up rebuilding the system and then upgraded the kernel to the latest from Red Hat. Has anyone had any similar problems and do you have any ideas what might have happened. Thanks Brett Bunker Lan Administrator Arizona State Hospital Office 602-220-6451 Pager 602-215-0195