On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:43:42PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 6:19 PM +0000 12/2/05, Simon Slaytor wrote:
> >
> >I seem to remember a problem when I was setting up the same
> >scenario as you using FreeBSD. When trying to print from a
> >Windows host using LPR/LPD the FBSD LPD daemon expects
> >connections from a certain TCP/IP port on the connecting host,
> >but Windows doesn't use the said port for it's LPR connections.
> >Hence the connections are being rejected. This may not apply
> >to OBSD's LPD implementation but you never know.
>
> I am not sure if this is the problem that Greg Thomas is seeing,
> but it might be. If it is, then at least lpd in FreeBSD supports
> the -W option:
<snip: what is -W?>
> My openbsd box isn't up-and-running right now, and it's still
> running 3.6 instead of 3.8 (I intend to upgrade soon). But looking
> at the CVS repository, I think lpd on OpenBSD does have this same -W
> option.
It has on 3.8, and I suspect has had it for quite some time.
Joachim
