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From: david@zhadum.org (David B. Mansel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Sysinstall / LPD
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 11:41:48 GMT
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Three quick questions both relating to an installation of 2.1.5...
First, most every time that I run /stand/sysinstall it locks up the
system completely... can't even ping the box at this point. It may be
due to not having the FreeBSD CD mounted - this is how things need to
be, but I still want to run the program to do an FTP upgrade. Any
ideas?
Second, I run Samba on the FreeBSD box, spooling print files to it
from my NT box. The FreeBSD box then spools the print job on to my HP
LJ5N using LPR. No problems with that set up. However, when the NT box
needs to do a print preview, etc, etc, it reads the queue on the
FreeBSD box (via Samba). But as the FreeBSD box is spooling to the
printer via LPR, it passes on requests to view the queue to the
printer. If the printer is off or busy, this has a knock on effect of
freezing the NT box! Is there any way that LPD on the FreeBSD box can
be set up to return it's local spool queue, rather than forwarding the
request to the printer? After all, it's the queue on the FreeBSD box
that I'm really interested in!
Third, I have named running nicely on my mini network to resolve names
of the NT box, FreeBSD box, the printer, and soon a second FreeBSD
box. However, I have to use the -r flag in named to stop unknown name
resolutions from being passed on. Supposedly, this is redundant and
should be acheived from a line in the named.boot file. I've tried
slave, forward, etc, etc to no avail... what should I be using, or
should I just stick with the -r flag?
Any help gratefully receive, but please cross post to david@zhadum.org
as well!
Regards,
David
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