From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 11:24:28 2002 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 A4C0137B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:24:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8365A43E31 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:24:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 18318 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2002 18:24:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 23 Jul 2002 18:24:23 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9CDD6412; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:24:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:24:23 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: using a printer shared from a windows machine Message-ID: <20020723182423.GF7060@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions References: <20020723132904.GA7060@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:07:13 -0600 (MDT) > From: Warren Block > To: Roman Neuhauser > Cc: freebsd-questions > Subject: Re: using a printer shared from a windows machine > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > what i need to know is: if i add the "tcp/ip printing" service, will > > it affect the other (win2k) computers? will it be necessary to change > > anything, or will that change go unnoticed? > > It's an lpd server for Microsoft. AFAIK, it won't affect other > printing. > > > or, do i have any other options if i want to print on that printer? > > Use Samba, but that's overkill for this. > > Put the printer on a JetDirect and let everyone print to it over the > network. Might be faster that way; probably wouldn't be with that > printer. i have samba running anyway; i just wasn't aware i could use it for this task. thanks for your input. -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 8:22PM up 7 days, 6:41, 8 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.04, 0.01 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message