Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:40:39 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: printing from windows xp to lpd without samba Message-ID: <20021025104039.GS29294@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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sorry for this really off-topic post, my excuse is that the working part of this problem is FreeBSD. :) I have a few FreeBSD boxes in an otherwise WindowsXP-only LAN. The Windows machines are taken care of by another person. Things started failing to function on the Windows side of the fence recently, and now the Windows boxes can't see each other, etc. One of the FreeBSD boxes has Samba installed, and shares a printer. This printer is now unreachable except for LPD, which of course works very fine. I can print to in from the XP boxes with lpr, but don't know how to set them to "see" the printer as a usual shared printer. The other person, who is "responsible" for the XP boxes, is clueless, of course. I don't *have* to do anything, but thought I'd be nice to my colleagues, who need to, but can't (with no fix in sight) print. Does anyone here know how to setup Windows XP to use a remote LPD? If so, what are the steps? (googling for lpd and windows finds about 1k hits for Lunix printing howto which doesn't cover this scenario.) -- If you cc me or take the list(s) out completely I'll most likely ignore your message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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