Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:45:19 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network printing via a win2k domain? Message-ID: <200306171145.19815.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20030617183413.GN64929@dan.emsphone.com> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030617142707.00a14540@pop.voyager.net> <20030617183413.GN64929@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Tuesday 17 June 2003 11:34 am, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 17), Dragoncrest said: > > Hi all. Ok, here's my situation. Just recently at work we switched > > over to our network being managed by a windows 2000 domain. (Stupid > > in my opinion, but they don't listen to me. Sheesh) One of the > > criteria for printing is I have to login to the domain in order to be > > able to print to our network based printer. So that's my dillema. > > I'm not sure if I can setup Cups to do this or if I need to install > > Samba, or some other printer software. I'd prefer to avoid using > > samba if at all possible cause that opens up a whole new can of > > worms. > > > > Cliff notes version of this: > > Need to login to domain to be able to print. > > Printer is a Ricoh network printer. > > Cheat, and print directly to the printer :) Most support the lpd > protocol. You have to have installed the simple unix services on the NT derivatives server for this to work. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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