On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:05:38 +0100, Tx staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
Quote:>I tried to set up a shared printer resident on an NT4 server from my
>red hat 7 box. Following the red hat instructions for installing an smb
>printer, I got completely garbled output with only small parts
>recognisable. After much unsuccessful messing about, just for a laugh I
>tried setting the queue type to 'Unix printer (lpd queue)' instead of
>'Windows printer (smb share)' in Printconf, after which it printed
>perfectly!
>Is there something I should know about the NT4 server? What's the deal?
NT and 2K come with a BSD-derived program that presents a "standard
Unix" lpd interface. Your NT admin may have set this up, as it makes
sense for the print server to speak lpd if there are Unix machines on
the network.
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