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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:25:03 -0400
From:      Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>
To:        "Defryn, Guy" <G.P.Defryn@massey.ac.nz>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: print server
Message-ID:  <20020416222503.GA87593@peitho.fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <98B01D2717B9D411B38F0008C7840931057F3760@its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz>
References:  <98B01D2717B9D411B38F0008C7840931057F3760@its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz>

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On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:55:22AM +1200, Defryn, Guy wrote:
> 
> 
> I still consider myself a FreeBSD newbie and I want to experiment 
> With setting up FreeBSD as a print server.
> 
> At the moment all our printers our network printers and they run on 2000 server .
> 
> I want to setup all the HP printers on Freebsd. All our users are on windows machines.
> 
> What's the best way to start?
> 
> cheers
> 

Samba is a file and print shareing for heterogenous networks,
that would take care of getting FBSD and Win2K talking.  Then
I run apsfilter for printing.  Both are in the ports:

/usr/ports/print/apsfilter
/usr/ports/net/samba

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