Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 23:52:04 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Cy Schubert" <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: LPD problems in 4.4-STABLE Message-ID: <00ac01c14333$16a83500$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <p05101000b7d1d330a409@[128.113.24.47]>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Garance A >Drosihn >Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 10:58 PM >To: Cy Schubert >That said, if someone does run into a problem because they have an >lpd client which connects from ports > 1024, then they will get an >explicit-enough message from freebsd's lpd which will explain the >problem to them. > >At that point they can decide to drop the reserved-port requirement >(by adding -W to lpd's startup flags), or instead they might decide >to drop the non-conforming lpd on their remote hosts... > >-- >Garance Alistair Drosehn Hear hear! I've tested dozens of Windows LPR clients and none fails to print to an ordinary FreeBSD server running lpd WITHOUT the -W. Beyond that, I can't imagine any other operating system that supports: "many clients [that] break lpr's traditional scheme" All other operating systems that I've dealt with include LPR and thus there's zero interest among developers in reinventing the wheel and writing LPR implementations for them. Let's have a little reality here, folks. The number of UNMODIFIED lpr implementations that are non-compliant in this way in the world could probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. 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-stable" in the body of the message
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