On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 09:13 -0800, Todd Cary wrote: > Problem solved! > It was the damn M$ Firewall on my wife's computer! Yes, allow > Printing and Fax was checked in the Exceptions, but for some unknown > reason it did not allow the printing to go through. LPD is probably not be considered "printing" from the standpoint of MS. Not sure IPP is either -- have to check. > Turned off the Firewall and the spooled pages came flying out! > Even though I know just enough to keep my Linux servers running > (actually, once they are up I am able forget them until we lose power > - then I need to power them back on :-) ), I know that somewhere in > there is an answer. Not so with Windows. > Thank you for trying to help with this.... Just allow 515/tcp and 515/udp through for LPD, and 631/tcp and 631/udp for IPP. This is not difficult to do at all for XPSP2's firewall. -- Bryan P.S. Also note, SMB changes whether you use the [not-so] encrypted RPC (port 445) or not (various ports). -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------ Some things (or athletes) money can't buy. For everything else there's "ManningCard."