share a printer with lpd?

[Tony]

Hi All,

With XP-Pro/SP2 and "print and file sharing" off,
how do I share a printer using the standard TCP/IP-LPD
protocol such that clients with standard TCP/IP-LPR can
print to it?

Many thanks,
--Tony

 

[Matthew C Rice]

If I understand correctly this is about a Line Printer, using the Line
Printer Daemon, or something similar?... Normally the printer has the
ethernet card in it, and a small LCD to configure the IP of the card,
then you can connect either directly to the IP //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or use
the add new printer wizard, and select network printer.. The wizard
will only work, if I remember right, if the IP of printer is in the
same class as yours, as all the wizard does, at least last I checked,
was scan a small section. since most LPD's won't let you assign to a
workgroup... so if your ip is 192.168.1.12 make sure the printer is in
the same range IE 192.168.1.xxx.

Let me know if that was what you were looking for

Conrad

 

[Tony]

If I understand correctly this is about a Line Printer, using the Line
Printer Daemon, or something similar?... Normally the printer has the
ethernet card in it, and a small LCD to configure the IP of the card,
then you can connect either directly to the IP //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or use
the add new printer wizard, and select network printer.. The wizard
will only work, if I remember right, if the IP of printer is in the
same class as yours, as all the wizard does, at least last I checked,
was scan a small section. since most LPD's won't let you assign to a
workgroup... so if your ip is 192.168.1.12 make sure the printer is in
the same range IE 192.168.1.xxx.

Let me know if that was what you were looking for

Conrad

Hi Conrad,

You have it backwards. I want the XP-Pro-sp2 computer
to run the LPD daemon. Is there a built in LPD daemon
in XP? Is there a third party daemon I can download?

Many thanks,
--Tony

 

[Matthew C Rice]

I have google'd around and found a few but they are not freeware, the
cheapest I saw was ~$300. They do have trial versions, so you can at
least make sure it is working 1st, and what you want before you buy


Conrad