From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 16:41:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E86137B431 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3GNeluF018537; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:40:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g3GNehcY018534; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:40:47 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:40:43 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: "Defryn, Guy" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: print server In-Reply-To: <98B01D2717B9D411B38F0008C7840931057F3760@its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Defryn, Guy wrote: > 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? People have been recommending Samba and various sorts of print filters, but you may not need that level of complexity. The "serious" branch of Windows (NT) can send lpr print jobs. Attach the printers to your FreeBSD machine. Define the queues in /etc/printcap. Install the various drivers on the Windows machines, and set them to print to an lpr "port" which is really the FreeBSD print queue. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message