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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: Ian@bstone.demon.co.uk (Ian Steel) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!pipex!demon!bstone.demon.co.uk!Ian Subject: lpd / windows Organization: Bilstone Ltd Reply-To: Ian@bstone.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.27 Lines: 18 Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 15:49:30 +0000 Message-ID: <770226570snz@bstone.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk I am trying to print from Windows for Workgroups to a printer connected to the parallel port on a unix box running FreeBSD 1.1 via tcp/ip. On the Windows PC I am using WLPRSPR 4.0 via the Microsoft 'Daytona' winsock. The file to be printed is sent to the Unix box and a print request is generated, but lpd (I think its lpd) is core dumping as soon as it tries to process the request. Using 'lpq', it states that the filename is C:/SPOOLER/xxxxx - could it be this thats causing the problem? In /var/spool/lpd there are 2 files that start with cf... and df... respectively, and the df... file contains all of the data to be printed. If I try 'lpr df....' it prints 100% ok! TIA -- Ian Steel