CUPS crashes Oce TDS400 controller

[Helge Blischke]

Peter Stewart wrote:

> G'day,
> 
> We're trying to use LPD to connect our Solaris 10 x86 CUPS server to our
> Oce TDS400 (large-format) printer.
> 
> Unfortunately, when we bring CUPS online, it immediately crashes the
> printer's controller machine (an embedded Win XP machine).
> 
> However, using the standard Solaris 'lp' command, the jobs go through
> fine.
> 
> We don't have any other available connection methods (except maybe SMB,
> but we'd hoped to use LPD).
> 
> The printer is setup as a 'raw' printer and is intended as a pass-thru.
> 
> Has anyone else had an issue like this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Peter.

I suspect the lpd server on the embeddid Windows is a bit picky on some LPD 
options.
First, I'd try to add
?reserve=true
to the device_uri to force the LPD backend to use a reserved port (by 
default it does not).
If that isn't sufficient, I'd try other options in addition (perhaps you 
need to look into the source of the LPD backend to get a complete list of 
the URI options it supports.

Helge