Hi, I am in a rather strange situation where I want to share a plan9 printer to windows. This much I have been able to do. The difficulty is the printer is on a different physical network (/net.alt) and the plan9 BSD LPR daemon runs as none, and so cannot bind/mount the filesystems to allow it to speak to alt.net.
Am I missing somthing? is there some other way lp(1) envomed from a network listner can access /net.alt? There is no /lib/namespace.lpdserver though I could add one if the conclusion was that this is the right way to go. Alternatively the lp daemon could run from cron rather than envoked by lp(1) directly, this way it could run as any user I like (the use lp?) and then it could have rights to access net.alt. the downside would be having to wait for a printout. Finally I could run the printer daemon as a priviledged process but that seems excessive. -Steve
