Print Services for UNIX is the name currently given by Microsoft

Microsoft

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 to its support of the Line Printer Daemon protocol

Line Printer Daemon protocol

The Line Printer Daemon protocol/Line Printer Remote protocol is a network protocol for submitting print jobs to a remote printer. The original implementation of LPD was in the Berkeley printing system in the BSD UNIX operating system; the LPRng project also supports that protocol...

 (also called LPR, LPD) on Windows NT

Windows NT

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement...

-based systems. It is installed using the Add/Remove Programs control panel applet. This component allows LPD queues to be supported using the native Windows printing system. It does not provide the lpr, lpq, lprm, or lpc commands.

History

Under Windows NT 4.0 and earlier this component was listed as "Microsoft TCP/IP Printing".

External links

• Print from UNIX to Windows
• HOW TO: Install and Configure Print Services for UNIX—Microsoft Product Knowledge Base
• UNIX to Windows Printing—Commercial Software