Allowing lpr through XP Pro firewall

From: Matt (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/15/03 

Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:09:17 -0700

I need to keep our firewall up on the main XP Pro machine
but cannot receive UNIX print commands (lpr/lpd) to our
printer at the same time.

What can we do to enable this through the Windows XP Pro
firewall?

TY
Matt

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