, Maddus Mattus wrote

@figuerres: Have you tried posting this question in the Microsoft forums? Theyre be clever people down there.

yes, and the reply was from a MSFT staff who wasno help at all, told me that the server versions are different and about local mode....  like hey you clown i probably know more than you about how it works....  i started with  SQL Server 6.5 and used SQLRS for Server 2000 and back then i wrote a server based printing service....  in the first release there was no client printing from the web for reports. so i wrote a way to print them from a server .... using the RS api's