hi,
this might be depending on what service-pack-level you are running, the lpr on my
NT 4 boxes runs just fine with LPRng. There is a LPRng version for windows as well,
you can find it on the website. With the latest release of it, you can print, query
and remove jobs...
ftp://ftp.astart.com/pub/LPRng/WINDOWS/win32lpr
Regards
~Christoph
Joshua Penix schrieb:
> I just spent a disgusting amount of time attempting to get Windows NT and
> 2000 clients talking to my Linux-based LPRng print server. Here's what I've
> found, and am curious about any insight list members might have.
>
> My objective is to move printing from our Novell server to the Linux print
> server. 95% of client stations who use the printers are running NT4.0. All
> printers are attached via JetDirect.
>
> We've set printing up successfully with Samba doing the work of accepting
> jobs and feeding them to the local LPRng daemon. But just for grins, we
> thought we'd try leaving Samba out of the equation, and have NT4 use its
> TCP/IP printing functionality to talk directly to the LPRng box via standard
> LPR protocol. I assumed this would work because NT4 can talk directly to
> our JetDirects via LPR... but when pointing it to our LPRng box, it
> absolutely refused to submit the job, chalking it up to "unknown network
> errors."
>
> My laptop happens to run Win2k, so I figured I'd try it as well... created a
> new "Standard TCP/IP Port" and gave it the IP of the LPRng server and a
> queue name. It also refused to print, simply saying "There was an error
> found when printing the document" (whoever wrote these useless Windows error
> messages should be shot). But it also happily printed to a JetDirect's LPR
> interface.
>
> The failure of both NT4 and Win2k to talk to LPRng was followed by about 3
> hours of my tailing LPRng logs, messing with printcap, messing with
> lpd.perms, messing with lpd.conf, all to no avail.
>
> Then, in a final frustrated attempt before going home I re-created the
> "Standard TCP/IP Port" on my Win2k box and this time checked the "LPD Byte
> Counting Enabled" box. Microsoft's Win2k help describes this option as
> follows:
>
> "Click if you encounter problems such as missing or incomplete documents
> when printing. When LPR byte counting is enabled, the computer counts the
> number of bytes in a document before sending it to the printer. Byte
> counting, which can be very time consuming, is not required by most
> printers. This option is available only when the LPR protocol is selected."
>
> Well shazam! As soon as I checked that box, the damn thing printed without
> complaint. I then went over to a NT4 box to try checking the same option,
> only to find that it doesn't have one. So, having a lead on "LPR Byte
> Counting" I went and dug around Deja. Very few references to it, but the
> ones that did exist were people saying "LPR Byte Counting is required per
> the RFC standard, so why on earth is there a box in Win2k to make it
> optional?"
>
> Of course, far be it from Microsoft to actually follow an RFC standard
> properly... thus my *assumption* is that NT4's TCP/IP printing functionality
> is "broken" in regard to byte counting, and LPRng is enforcing the standard
> and denying NT4 when it wants to print. Does this sound right? Anyone else
> tried such a thing?
>
> So it looks like I'll be going back to Samba unless anyone knows a
> workaround... what a pain!!!
>
> --Josh
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