At my office we use printers connected by ip address, so no need to log into the other winders machines. What I dislike is that the XP and Vista machines will search other 'puters on the network and install any printers found on other machines automatically. So, each machine will have it's own connection to the tcp/ip printer, and connections to that same printer on every other computer also set up to use it. They also like to change the the default printer to use one of these other connections, and for some reason they seem to favor the ones on my 'puter. I haven't yet found a way to turn this annoying behaviour off...