26 May 2005Printing To A Windows Server With LPD

On the Windows Server:

Start up “TCP/IP Printing Server”:

1) click Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services

2) Scoll down the list shown and double-click on “TCP/IP Printing Server”

3) Go down to the Startup type field and change Manual to Automatic

4) Click Start Button

On the CUPS system:

Add a printer using the device URI of: lpd://server/name

Replace server with the hostname or IP address of the server and name with the queue name.