From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 21 11:54:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 186CC1164E for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:54:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-208-147-146-124.dialup.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.124]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA04726; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:54:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA74301; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:54:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199902211954.NAA74301@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Hagerty Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Remote printer access In-reply-to: Message from Matthew Hagerty of "Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:33:38 EST." <4.1.19990220222633.00960240@mail.venux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:54:28 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG moved to -questions from -net Matthew Hagerty writes: > Greetings, > > I hope this is not off topic, if it is, please excuse me and if kindly > point me to the correct list, thanks. > > Is there a generally accepted method for accessing remote printers with > FreeBSD? I have to servers located in different states and I need to print > to a printer located on one server from the other server. Both are > connected the Internet via dedicated ISDN. I'm running FreeBSD-3.x on both. In another state or in another room, its the same for any networked printer. See the man pages for lpd(8), printcap(5), and particularly hosts.lpd(5) (because you really want to restrict who can print on your printer). The above is assuming the printer(s) in question are connected directly to a FreeBSD host. If they are networked printers with their own ethernet cards then you'll have to restrict access in your firewall. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message