Share Printers, Printing Long.

[Rick Preston]

On 6/22/05, Stephan Weaver <stephanweaver at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have suscessfully installed my DSL MODEM Behind my FREEBSD Firewall.
> Ever Since i have done this, i noticed that my windows users, when trying to
> print to shared printers, it takes very long for them to access the
> printers.
> I have an empty ipf.rules
> and my ip nat rules looks like
> map vr0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 proxy port ftp ftp/tcp
> map vr0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 portmap tcp/udp 40000:60000
> map vr0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32
> 
> 
> my dhcp.conf looks like
> >cat /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf
> option domain-name "pizzaboys.org";
> option domain-name-servers 192.3.132.1, 196.3.132.4;
> 
> default-lease-time 86400;
> max-lease-time 86400;
> 
> authoritative;
> 
> ddns-update-style none;
> 
> log-facility local1;
> 
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>   range 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.200;
>   option routers 192.168.0.2;
> }
> 
> 
> Any Assistance Please

Are the shared printers in the 192.168.0/24 subnet?  Are they
connected to workstation that get their IP through DHCP?  What are you
using for workstation name resolution?  What are you using for a port
type on the windows machines, \\workstation\printer?
is it DSL<-->firewall<--> workstations&printers?

Looks to me like it is a name resolution thing.  Your DNS servers are
outside your subnet and probably doesn't know what is in your network.

Answer these questions and I can probably give you some ideas.

Cheers,
Rick