Re: Printing from Unix to Printer on PC

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From: Alan Morris\(MSFT\) (alanmo_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:11:46 -0800

If you have the firewall enabled on XP you will need to setup an Exception
for the Print Service for Unix (lpd). LPD listens for incoming jobs on TCP
Port 515.
I do not quite understand how the printer is connected to the PC.

I think the BSD selection would be the correct option in Unix 

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"Dan" <gill_daniel@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:#Sa0aepwEHA.1404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I have windows XP with a printer attached to a UPC port.  It is the
default
> printer for this PC and is on a network with an AIX server.
>
> I am trying to setup a print queue on the AIX server to print to my
Printer
> connected to my PC.
>
>  I have installed Print Services for Unix from Add/Rem
> programs/ windows components.  Then made sure that TCP/IP Print server was
> started and set to Automatic.  Is that all that is needed here?
>
> The printer on my PC is named BrotherH and is shared as BrotherH.
>
> I then went on my unix box:
> Added my computer to the hosts file (tested with ping)
> Set up printer to print to a remote host.  In setup I named the queue TEST
> and put the name of my computer (the one I put in the hosts file) into the
> Host field and put BrotherH in the "Name of the QUEUE on the remote server
> field.  I then selected BSD for the "Type of print spooler on the remote
> server. Is BSD correct? The other opions are System V, AIX 3 or 4 and AIX
2.
>
> Is this correct or am I missing something? I'm thinking there is something
> else I have to do on the PC but can't remember.
>
> Dan
>
>

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