Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 00:45:10 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Howard Picken" <howard@tasbusiness.net.au>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Repost: Internet Print Protocol Message-ID: <001d01c1134b$662bb560$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <NEBBINKDCLOMKGJEKECHCENHCBAA.howard@tasbusiness.net.au>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Howard Picken >Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 5:06 PM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG >Subject: RE: Repost: Internet Print Protocol > > >Thanks for the response Bill > >The setup is... we have a freeBSD 3.2 unit acting as our web server, email >server and firewall. >It's running Apache, Squid, MySQL and PHP4. The unit acts as our link to >the internet for our >internal network. > >The system is setup is also setup as a fiewall to protect the internal >network and this has >been working fine for quite a while. > >I now have to add a Win2K box on the network to handle internet printing >from a couple >of branches we have. > >Hence my question. Which files do I need to change to allow external access >to a specific >internal IP address. > You don't want to do it like that. What you want to do is set the remote sites to LPR over the Internet to the FreeBSD box, which will then relay it via LPR to the inside W2K box. You set the allowed IP numbers in /etc/hosts.lpd with the benefit of not having to compromise your firewall. IPP is really intended for ROAMING users, ie: users with laptops. Since these remote sites are fixed IP numbers you will save yourself a lot of work if you just use LPR. IPP is icky, icky icky stuff, and the clients have to use IE 4 or later to even get it to work. It's just another proprietary networking protocol from Microsoft that's intended to cause administrators to have migraines. What they figure is that by the time you ever get IPP to work your going to be so sick of printing that you won't want to touch it ever again. LPR is your friend here! Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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