From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 17:28:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E20637B41C for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 17:28:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g351SpuF079845; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:28:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g351SlxL079842; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:28:51 -0700 (MST)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:28:47 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network printing problem (long and detailed) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message