Re: LPR Problems

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From: Bruce Sanderson (Bruce.Sanderson_at_junk.junk)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:57:49 -0700

1. are these additional lines actually being sent from the Windows 2003 Web
server? The Network Monitor that comes with Windows 2003 could be used to
determine this.

2. What options are you using on the lpr command in the batch file? A
sample of the complete lpr command being used woud be useful.

3. What OS is running on the "controlling pc" that is receiving the print
request?

4. See RFC 1179 for additional information about the lpr/lpd protocol
(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1179.txt?number=1179).

5. See if the section "Configure Windows LPR Software" in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;132460 helps. 

-- 
Bruce Sanderson MVP
It's perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
"Keith F." <KeithF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:03B67BD5-B825-48DC-8F8E-035DDF187861@microsoft.com...
> I'm using LPR on a windows 2003 web server, to send a file to a network
> printer (actually the pc controlling the printer). The command is being
> executed in a batch file.
> I'm being told by the computer operators that when the print file (which
is
> just a text file) gets to the controlling pc, sometimes it has lines
inserted
> somehow during the transfer process. These lines are not in the file on
the
> web server. A line with the full path to the file I'm sending to the
printer
> and a line with a FormFeed character are sometimes inserted into the file
> somehow.
> The problem is those two lines are not always added to the file. I'm
> guessing this has something to do with LPR.
> Is there are way to control whether or not those lines get inserted? Like
> using a switch on the command line?
>
> Thanks,
> Keith F

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