This is the third in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on a separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and Windows Vista.
I have a cups server on my gentoo system, and it serves its own jobs and those of a WinXP host that's on my LAN. The XP host is set up to use the Gentoo system as an LPD server, using the drivers I loaded off the XP install CD. So far, so good, although parts 1 and 2 (previous posts) show that it's not perfect. What I want now is to let my wife's Windows Vista laptop use the printer. I've seen how to set up an LPD printer in Vista, and it's a bit easier than it was in XP. However, it does not work at all -- I cannot print a test page. The Vista box seems to think everything's fine, but nothing happens at the printer. The Vista machine is connected via wireless to my LAN, where CUPS is working, and where a NAT router also gives access to the wider internet. It seems that this should work, but it does not. Help? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
