From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 11:45:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84AED37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E0F43FA3 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:45:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h5HIjKD04720; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:45:20 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: Dan Nelson , Dragoncrest Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:45:19 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030617142707.00a14540@pop.voyager.net> <20030617183413.GN64929@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030617183413.GN64929@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306171145.19815.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network printing via a win2k domain? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:45:30 -0000 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