Share Printers, Printing Long.

[Stephan Weaver]

In Response To Your Last Email.
What Do you suggest i do?

On 6/22/05, Rick Preston <rickjpreston at gmail.com> wrote:
>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.

Yes, I would agree, if you are printing to shares, \\workstation\printer.
You may need to run a WINS server. or create an lmhosts file on each box.

>
>Answer these questions and I can probably give you some ideas.
>
>Cheers,
>Rick

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