Re: remote printing lpr to CUPS?

On 2008-01-26, Warren Block <wblock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Will Parsons <oudeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a home network with two machines running FreeBSD and one running
Windows Vista. FreeBSD#1 has a printer connected to it via parallel port
which I would like to be able to be used from the other two machines.
In order to get the Windows machine to print via FreeBSD, I installed
CUPS and Samba on the machine, but now FreeBSD#2 (running lpd) is unable
to print to it. Will I have to replace lpd with cups on #2 as well, or
is it possible to keep lpd on one with machine with cups running on the
other?

Maybe check the Listen line in /usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf. Mine
says "# Only listen for connections from the local machine.", but then
cupsd isn't enabled, either.

You could disable CUPS, re-enable lpd, set up a Windows "Standard TCP/IP
Port" with lpr, and try that. You may need to add the appropriate IP
addresses to /etc/hosts.lpd.

If that doesn't work, and you have XP Pro, you can set up a "real" lpr
client with the "Unix Print Services (Or Something Like That, We're
Microsoft, Do You Think We Care If You Can Print On One Of Those Nerdy
Unix Things?)" package.


My wife is running Vista. She has been printing through the standard
interface from day 1, no cups. In fact trying to get cups working seemed to
break my previously functioning system (see other thread from today). I use
apsfilter to print locally. In samba, the printers from the printcap that
apsfilter creates show up. As such, when you go to 'network' and find the
freebsd computer, the printers show up. (Being totally accurate, I don't use
"apsfilter" to print. I used it to generate a printcap that the lp deamon
uses).

As for printing from one freebsd machine to another, that I've never done.
Sorry.

JE
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