Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:57:42 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Charles N. Owens" <owensc@enc.edu> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.4, Samba, HP LaserJet 5N, delays, reboots Message-ID: <20000214115742.B19369@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <38A48A9C.A3BB2D75@enc.edu>; from Charles N. Owens on Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 05:18:04PM -0500 References: <20000211123416.A92889@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <38A48A9C.A3BB2D75@enc.edu>
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 05:18:04PM -0500, Charles N. Owens wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure what the proper workaround is. Perhaps an added flag in
> printcap that tells lpd not to query the next hop when answering lpq
> queries. Or maybe some kind of aggressive timeout mechanism...
> Suggestions anyone?
I think the best workaround for the time being is plug the printer in over
the parallel port, and connect that way. Then the spooler on Windows will
be talking to the BSD lpd, which can respond immediately.
The only reason I'm not doing this is because it seemed to crash the machine.
Various responses here suggest that it's because ppc0 has the 'net' entry
and not the 'tty' entry in the kernel config file. I'll be following this
up when I'm on site this evening.
However, as a data point, my home network has a couple of Win98 machines
which print to a FreeBSD machine, which has an Epson Stylus Color 760 hung
off the parallel port. The entry in that machine's kernel config file
is
device ppc0 at isa? port? net irq 7
and I've never had a problem with printing from Windows, even with the
'net' flag. This is with -stable built on Jan 17th this year.
Assuming changing 'net' to 'tty' on the client's machine fixes the
problem, I'll put a warning in GENERIC.
N
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