From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 8 21:07:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E175216A418 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:07:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp224.math.arizona.edu (smtp224.math.arizona.edu [128.196.224.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98F513C442 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:07:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J16uG-0006j0-VE for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:08:22 -0700 Received: from 71-220-152-133.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.152.133] helo=.domain.actdsltmp) by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1J16uG-0006il-Ql for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:08:16 -0700 Message-ID: <475B0775.9010008@math.arizona.edu> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:07:01 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: The HELO/EHLO greeting .domain.actdsltmp is invalid X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Cc: Subject: LPRng question and printing in general X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:07:13 -0000 I would like to ask people who use LPRng spooling system on FreeBSD to clarify something for me. I have been playing with all available spooling systems on FreeBSD (LPD, LPRng, CUPS , PDQ) as well as HPLIP in order to document their behavior and write simple howtos for each of the systems. However I kept getting into the trouble with LPRng. Namely, I could not get past the following message Lp@localhost -cannot open connection - No such file or directory Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol Is that the famous conflict with the native LPD supporting RFC1179 printing. How do people resolve this conflict in practice? I also noticed that PDQ project is completely abandoned by its creator. Also LPRng was abandoned by its creator in 2005 and then picked by somebody else. I wander what is the state of ifhp filter which is used by default by LPRng. As it is a hardware based project and there are so many printers that were manufactured in the mean time I wander if the system is still usable in real life. Is FreeBSD printing essentially reduced to LPD+apsfilter for small to medium print networks and CUPS for very complex printing networks or LPRng is alive and well. I tried to get into LPRng mailing lists but they seems are not active any more. Best, Predrag