Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 10:54:39 -0500 From: Tony Wells <tony@camel.kdsi.net> To: Manas <bhatt_manas@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to print to a Windows box Message-ID: <3BBB34BF.39230762@camel.kdsi.net> References: <20011003072239.22302.qmail@web10702.mail.yahoo.com>
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Manas wrote: > > hi, > I am running FreeBSD 4.3 stable. My problem is the > following :-- > I want to print documents to a network printer but > the network printer is connected to a Windows NT box. > I don't know how to proceed. Can anybody give some > pointers. > thanks > manas > Samba is what you're looking for there. IIRC, there is some documentation that comes along with the port that explains how to do that. You might have to look in the source when you build the port to find it. Essentially what you do is add an entry to /etc/printcap that calls a script that does the input filtering, and uses smbclient to send the job to the NT printer. For the best results, the printer should be able to handle postscript, since most X apps reguritate postscript for printing. > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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