XP/Linux printing

[Guest]

Hello

I'm having trouble getting a Linux Red Hat 9 machine to print to an XP box with a local shared Lexmark printer in a workgroup setting. After looking in the XP Resource Kit it said that Unix/Linux systems could print to an XP box that had LPD set up but I can't get it to work. I have Print Services for Unix installed on the XP box but there is no option to add it as a service in my NIC properties. I've tried to manually configure an LPR and a TCP/IP port but that's not working either
Any idesa?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Maybe this will help
http://www.linuxprinting.org/

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Hello,

I'm having trouble getting a Linux Red Hat 9 machine to print to an XP box with a

local shared Lexmark printer in a workgroup setting. After looking in the XP Resource
Kit it said that Unix/Linux systems could print to an XP box that had LPD set up but
I can't get it to work. I have Print Services for Unix installed on the XP box but
there is no option to add it as a service in my NIC properties. I've tried to
manually configure an LPR and a TCP/IP port but that's not working either.

 

[Tony Edgecombe]

If you look in the services list for "TCP/IP Print Server" and make sure it
is started. Unfortunately this service seems to go under 3 different names
depending on where you look. From there it should be easy but if you don't
get any output look in the event log, the usual problem is an incorrect
printer name.

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Tony Edgecombe
www.frogmorecs.com/ng
Software for printing

Hello,

I'm having trouble getting a Linux Red Hat 9 machine to print to an XP box

with a local shared Lexmark printer in a workgroup setting. After looking in
the XP Resource Kit it said that Unix/Linux systems could print to an XP box
that had LPD set up but I can't get it to work. I have Print Services for
Unix installed on the XP box but there is no option to add it as a service
in my NIC properties. I've tried to manually configure an LPR and a TCP/IP
port but that's not working either.