Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:59:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, "Defryn, Guy" <G.P.Defryn@massey.ac.nz>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: print server Message-ID: <20020417165201.A477-100000@small.pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <20020417035019.61B03BA05@i8k.babbleon.org>
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > 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. > | > > | > 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? Sounds ok, I only never thought or heard about it. So I tried to print from my Win2k to my FreeBSD machine by C:> lpr -S small -P lp hello.txt but received an error saying, that my print server did not accept the request (please do excuse my translation: my Win2k speaks German). Do I have to allow print requests somewhere? Uli. *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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