[Info-vax] LPD problems

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
 
>   Sadly, there is no one standard LPD.  Just try getting a BSD UNIX
>   LPD to talk to a SystemV LPD.  I had to do exactly that when we added
>   HP-UX systems to a network contining ULTRIX systems.

I used to spool between SunOS and HP-UX.  There is an option
flag in the HP-UX spooler for bsd compatibility.  Many others
have such flag, too.  

My home net now spools through FreeBSD, with one printer on
W2K server.  Windows and Linux systems spool either to the 
FreeBSD server or W2K, some indirectly.

For W2K, the queue name is the first eight characters of the
windows printer name, which probably shouldn't have blanks
in it.

-- glen