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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>,
	Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Subject: Re: print server
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:50:19 -0400
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On Wednesday 17 April 2002 01:45 am, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
| On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Warren Block wrote:
| > 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.
|
| But you would still need samba - wouldn't you?

Windows understands IP, and per this post, it understands lpr as well, so why 
would you?

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