Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:21:55 -0400 From: "Stephan Weaver" <stephanweaver@hotmail.com> To: hornetmadness@gmail.com, rickjpreston@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Share Printers, Printing Long. Message-ID: <BAY20-F4B7331CFFC5E5F7BC1339A8EA0@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <f42935a605062216124a5b1ff6@mail.gmail.com>
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>From: Hornet <hornetmadness@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Hornet <hornetmadness@gmail.com>
>To: Rick Preston <rickjpreston@gmail.com>
>CC: Stephan Weaver <stephanweaver@hotmail.com>,
>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Share Printers, Printing Long.
>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:12:36 -0400
>
>On 6/22/05, Rick Preston <rickjpreston@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/22/05, Stephan Weaver <stephanweaver@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have suscessfully installed my DSL MODEM Behind my FREEBSD Firewall.
> > > Ever Since i have done this, i noticed that my windows users, when
>trying to
> > > print to shared printers, it takes very long for them to access the
> > > printers.
> > > I have an empty ipf.rules
> > > and my ip nat rules looks like
> > > map vr0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 proxy port ftp ftp/tcp
> > > map vr0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 portmap tcp/udp 40000:60000
> > > map vr0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32
> > >
> > >
> > > my dhcp.conf looks like
> > > >cat /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf
> > > option domain-name "pizzaboys.org";
> > > option domain-name-servers 192.3.132.1, 196.3.132.4;
> > >
> > > default-lease-time 86400;
> > > max-lease-time 86400;
> > >
> > > authoritative;
> > >
> > > ddns-update-style none;
> > >
> > > log-facility local1;
> > >
> > > subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> > > range 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.200;
> > > option routers 192.168.0.2;
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > Any Assistance Please
> >
> > Are the shared printers in the 192.168.0/24 subnet? Are they
> > connected to workstation that get their IP through DHCP? What are you
> > using for workstation name resolution? What are you using for a port
> > type on the windows machines, \\workstation\printer?
> > is it DSL<-->firewall<--> workstations&printers?
> >
> > Looks to me like it is a name resolution thing. Your DNS servers are
> > outside your subnet and probably doesn't know what is in your network.
>
>Yes, I would agree, if you are printing to shares, \\workstation\printer.
>You may need to run a WINS server. or create an lmhosts file on each box.
>
> >
> > Answer these questions and I can probably give you some ideas.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rick
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YES - - - - Are the shared printers in the 192.168.0/24 subnet?
They Get the IP From the FreeBSD Machine -- - - Are they connected to
workstation that get their IP through DHCP?
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