Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote: > Byron - > I got my wife a Mac (she has only been asking for one for > three years): iBook G4. Well her printer is hooked up to > a PC and she likes to roam around the house with the wireless > connection. Can your suggestion be implemented in this > environment? Yes. Line Printer Daemon (LPD) is a well-established, legacy standard. It uses port 515 and is governed by IETF RFC1179: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1179.txt The new IETF standard is the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). It uses port 631 (both clear and SSL) and is governed by IETF RFC2910: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2910.txt Another port to be aware of is port 9100, commonly referred to by it's vendor-centric names like a "HP JetDirect" port. The technical name is the [HP] Page Description Language datastream (PDL-datastream) port. Microsoft calls it a "TCP/IP port", and you set it up as a local port, which maps back to the IP address/port. BSD/SysV UNIX LPD, LPR and LPRng offer LPD services. CUPS offers IPP by default, and it can also offer LPD services. CUPS, as a client, can also use other methods including LPD, IPP, SMB, PDL-datastream, etc... CUPS also offers a replacement spooler for NT/2000/XP that radically simplifies/centralizes administration for Windows clients. Windows Servers can offer SMB and LPD, and newer versions can offer IPP services. Windows NT/2000 clients can use SMB, LPD and PDL-datastream, with XP adding IPP. For IPP, LPD and PDL-datastream, you set it up as a "local port." Macs can also use LPD and PDL-datastream, with newer MacOS X releases supporting IPP. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------- *** Speed doesn't kill, difference in speed does ***