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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:28:47 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        chip.wiegand@simrad.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: network printing problem (long and detailed)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204041827410.79809-100000@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <OF9D5C10E7.F82F85FE-ON88256B91.006C837E-88256B91.006FC820@simrad.no>

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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote:

> I have fbsd 4.5 and samba-2.2.2.3 working fine, and a hp 952c 
> working fine, on the fbsd box. I have this one bsd box on a
> windoze network - 45 workstations, 8 servers, 2 freebsd boxes.
> I want this one printer to be accesible to the servers. The 
> printer and the bsd box it is connected to (via parallel port)
> are in the server room. When I set up a print device in NT to 
> print to the  printer it will start to spool then quit and the
> word spooling will be replaced by 'printing error'. I do have 
> one old win95 box and it will print to that printer just fine.
> I don't understand why NT can't print to it.

Do you have the NT machine's IP address or DNS name in /etc/hosts.lpd?

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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