One reason I have read about is that there where problems with buggy
printservers that did not clear the out downloaded fonts and other
things.(especially these on a laserjet)
Setting the the filesize to something "invalid" would lead the software
to do a small soft reboot and clear up settings
At 10:25 AM -0800 12/4/05, Greg Thomas wrote:
On 12/4/05, Steve Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Any issues I had printing from XP went away when I enabled
> LPR Byte counting in the LPR port settings.
Any ideas why that is?
Apparently Windows (in general) does not like to keep a b
On 12/11/05, Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:25 AM -0800 12/4/05, Greg Thomas wrote:
> >On 12/4/05, Steve Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Any issues I had printing from XP went away when I enabled
> > > LPR Byte counting in the LPR port settings.
> >
> >
> >
Same issue when using the CUPS LPD daemon so it's not an LPD thing,
surprise surprise it looks like a Windows thing.
Greg Thomas wrote:
On 12/4/05, Steve Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Any issues I had printing from XP went away when I enabled LPR Byte
counting in the LPR port settings
On 12/4/05, Steve Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> Any issues I had printing from XP went away when I enabled LPR Byte
> counting in the LPR port settings.
>
Any ideas why that is?
Greg
Greg Thomas wrote:
Ok, I decided to switch from using a little Linksys 802.11b parallel
print server to using my OpenBSD box for printing to my one printer.
Printing locally works fine but I'm having trouble printing from XP.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ethant# cat /etc/printcap
# $OpenBSD:
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:43:42PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 6:19 PM + 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 expe
At 6:19 PM + 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
Why not use CUPS?, with the CUPS LPD daemon, works like a charm for us.
Just enable RAW and LPR Byte accounting on your Windows XP hosts. When
configuring the CUPS printer again choose a RAW device to ensure
straight pass through from your Windows PC to the printer.
I seem to remember a proble
On 12/2/05, Fred Crowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg Thomas wrote:
> > Ok, I decided to switch from using a little Linksys 802.11b parallel
> > print server to using my OpenBSD box for printing to my one printer.
> > Printing locally works fine but I'm having trouble printing from XP.
> >
> >
Greg Thomas wrote:
Ok, I decided to switch from using a little Linksys 802.11b parallel
print server to using my OpenBSD box for printing to my one printer.
Printing locally works fine but I'm having trouble printing from XP.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ethant# cat /etc/printcap
# $OpenBSD:
Additional info. With this printcap on my OpenBSD laptop printing works fine:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ethant# cat /etc/printcap
rp|remote line printer:\
:sf:sh:lp=:rm=grits:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
So it appears to be an XP issue. Any suggestions for XP?
Greg
On 12/1/0
Ok, I decided to switch from using a little Linksys 802.11b parallel
print server to using my OpenBSD box for printing to my one printer.
Printing locally works fine but I'm having trouble printing from XP.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ethant# cat /etc/printcap
# $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03
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