From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 13:25:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DCC15135 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:25:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mw@theatre.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id WAA10875; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:25:36 +0100 (CET) Received: (from mw@localhost) by theatre.lan (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA52820; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:12:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mw) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:12:30 +0100 From: Martin Welk To: Eric Dannewitz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Print Server for LAN Message-ID: <20000126221230.J45379@theatre.lan> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from ericdano@ncal.verio.com on Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 08:58:03PM -0800 Organization: Private UUCP/Usenet site. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 08:58:03PM -0800, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Lexmark Optra R+ (A postscript printer) with my > FreeBSD box. I'd like the Windows PCs on the network to be able to print > to the printer. Now, I think Samba needs to be installed, but is there any > other way to do it? You could use lpr or lprng (in the ports) and let the Windoze boxes print to an lpr printer (I think it's called LPD printer in '98, and LPR printer in NT, but I'm not very sure.) Both works. Regards, Martin -- ,,You know, there's a lot of opportunities, if you're knowing to take them, you know, there's a lot of opportunities, if there aren't you can make them, make or break them!'' (Tennant/Lowe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message