LPD printer queue management from Windoze clients?

Keith France keith at fcomsrv.co.uk
Thu Jun 10 09:29:29 BST 2004


Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the warning, I'll also look at the webmin printer management 
module as well.

Cheers,


Keith.

At 17:28 09/06/2004 +0100, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>While it's true that creating a tcp/ip printing port in W2K and XP gets
>around the problem, it can introduce some of it's own eg. if users send
>large print jobs you can start getting printer unavailable messages when
>other users try to print to the same printer. There is a print
>management module for webmin that you might try looking at.
>Regards
>Kevin
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: freebsd-users-admin at uk.freebsd.org [mailto:freebsd-users-
> >admin at uk.freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Keith France
> >Sent: 09 June 2004 17:08
> >To: Martin Hepworth
> >Cc: freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
> >Subject: Re: LPD printer queue management from Windoze clients?
> >
> >Thanks for that Martin, I'll trial your suggestion here and see how we
>go.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Keith.
> >
> >At 11:39 09/06/2004 +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> >>keith
> >>
> >>I'd setup the windoze boxes to run lpd rather than 'shared printers'.
>This
> >>is built in XP and there's still a few lpd clients around that are
>free
> >>for win9x.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Martin Hepworth
> >>Snr Systems Administrator
> >>Solid State Logic
> >>Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> >>
> >>
> >>Keith France wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>At one of our clients we are running standard BSD lpd printing
>service on
> >>>their FreeBSD server which has Windows 9x and XP workstations
>attached in
> >>>the usual way using samba for file serving, print serving and PDC
> >services.
> >>>The printers are networked, but jobs are spooled on the server before
> >>>being sent to the printers. At times jobs in the print queues can get
> >>>"stuck" and require intervention often in the form of being removed.
> >>>Currently this requires one of us here to logon to the server to sort
>out
> >>>the queue.
> >>>Has any one come across a means of managing the printing queue from
> >>>Windows workstations in such a way that a none UNIX person would be
> >>>comfortable with: i.e. a GUI front end similar to the CUPS one?
> >>>Or are you all going to tell me to use CUPS instead of  LPD services
>:-))
> >>>Keith.
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