windows and lpd

Steve Blinkhorn · *nix forums beginner Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 8

I know this is something of a recurrent issue....

I'm trying to provide access to a printer via a netbsd box for an XP
laptop. This is because my old laptop (a Win2000 box) lost its screen
- but it can still print via the netbsd box, so I've tried to replicate
the setup exactly.

I believe I've done everything by the book, and a tcpdump shows that the
two machines are talking to each other. There are entries in both
hosts.lpd and hosts.equiv, there's a listening socket on port 515. I
imagine there's something going wrong to do with authentication, so what
I really want to do is capture the communication between the XP box and
the BSD box to see where it's failing. I end up trying to sort this
sort of thing out about every five years.

Can someone advise?

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk>

Frederick Bruckman · *nix forums beginner Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 23

In article <125k266bj3bhtc8@corp.supernews.com>,
Steve Blinkhorn <steve@newsole.prd.co.uk> writes:

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