samba printing- win 2000 clients, surprising results…

Hi,

This is a message is related to the problem that i have been having with printing from win 2000 pro clients to queues setup on OS X 10.2.6 server.

After installing printers on the win 2000 machines by double clicking on the queues, i have noticed that in some cases under printer properties, ports tab there is samba port only and in others there are all the ports on the machine but not the samba port.

also under the security tab, some machines have administrator, creator, everyone and power users (the ones with all ports but samba) and others have everyone and root (the ones with samba port alone).

The same printer installed on 2 different machines can have either one of the setups and the surprising thing is that none of the ports are selected and they both work.

Any reason for this unpredictable behaviour? Is there a good way and a bad way that things might work?

thanks in advance..