From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 15:31:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA02747 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 15:31:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA02741 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 15:31:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id QAA22791; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 16:30:38 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199703272330.QAA22791@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Network printing To: mjanosi@numacorp.com Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 16:30:37 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <7E33592427B@numacorp.com> from "Miki Janosi" at Mar 27, 97 02:13:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Miki Janosi asked: > Let me give a little background before I ask the question. We have > numerous networks, Sun, Netware, and Mac printing to some HP laser > printers. I asked my sys admin how to print to any of them from my > PC, I have both DOS and BSD on it. He told me to erase BSD and install > Linux and he'd think about helping me. I can ping the printer and I Tell your sys admin to rip his/her/its head out of his/her/its behind; printer administration on FreeBSD is simple. Now, on to your other problems. If the Sun is running SunOS, you should be able to look at /etc/printcap on the Sun and get all of the information you need to setup your /etc/printcap. A good book on UNIX administration, such as Seebas et al, will help in this area. If your Sun is running Solaris, you can probably still find the information, but the SVR4 line printer system in nearly indecipherable for people who've been using it for years (like me), let alone a novice. The pertinent question to ask your sys admin (before you do the bit about his/her/its behind) is to ask of there is an "lpd" print queue for it. Then setup your printcap file, as others have so aptly demonstrated, to point to the print queue. BTW, you don't need to worry about converting text to postscript for your HP printer; they all default to working like a standard HP printer until they see something that looks like a postscript job. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com