On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:24 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Tharun Kumar Allu wrote: >> Hi All, >> I am trying to print from a CentOS 5.3 server to a windows LPD >> service. After enabling the LPD service on Windows and creating a LPR >> port to a particular printer when I execute the following command on >> CentOS server I do not come out. >> lpr -H winprint:515 -P printer1 file.txt >> >> The above command does not exit. Do I need to configure anything on >> the server to be able to use lpr as a client ? >> Ultimately I want to use the above command to print to various >> printers based on different parameters. >> >> On a different note when I execute the same command on Fedora 14 I get >> Unknown as the error. > > Have you checked CUPS? <http://localhost:631> > > mark > Yes. The whole idea I am trying to achieve is not to install any printers on the server (if I can avoid) but use it as a client to print through a windows LPD service.