[Info-vax] LPD problems

[Tom Adams]

On Apr 13, 4:19 pm, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> Tom Adams wrote:
> > On Apr 13, 4:04 pm, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Tom Adams wrote:
> >>>> They tell me that LPD is enabled on the Windows server.
> >>> Correction, they told me the printer was enabled for LPD.
> >> Then print to the *printer*, not to the Windows server...
> >> Which one was you trying to print to ?
>
> > I just ask about that.
>
> The IP-address in your printcap file, is that the IP-address
> of the Windows server or the address of the actual printer ?
>
>
>
> > The VMS systems are on a laboratory lan that is isolated from just
> > about everthing, so I typically need to go thru a limited number of
> > server addresses.
>
> What does "isolated" mean ? A firewall ?

I am not sure what it means.  There are nodes on a lab lan that can
only get to 2 server addresses (2 that I know of) that are "gateways"
to the outside lan.  Anything we send to the outside lan has to go
thru these servers.   It no a firewall, lab lan cannot access the web.

>
> Then open up port 515 between the IP-addresses of the
> VMS server and the printer (or the Windows server, it's
> yet not clear which one you'd like to print to).
>
> Or, if you're not allowed to access the printer directly,
> make *SURE* that LPD is started on the *Windows* server,
> if you're allowed to access that one...