From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 9:24:50 2003 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 58B7337B404 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:24:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.clubplus.net (mail.clubplus.net [216.191.22.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A2043FA3 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (3s1.com [209.188.66.29]) by mail.clubplus.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2JHPuui000841; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:25:56 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h2JHOf4w030895; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:24:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2JHOfkx030869; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:24:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2JHOf5r030868; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:24:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:24:41 -0500 From: David Banning To: Bill Moran Cc: David Banning , Matthias Teege , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on samba install Message-ID: <20030319122441.A30811@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030319010137.A22604@skytrackercanada.com> <86r8933hdg.fsf@gic.mteege.de> <20030319121355.A30619@skytrackercanada.com> <3E78A696.8030009@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3E78A696.8030009@potentialtech.com>; from wmoran@potentialtech.com on Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:19:18PM -0500 X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (mail) 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 > >>>If I install samba without cups, is it still possible to print with samba? > >> > >>Yes, you can use lpr or lprng with samba. > > > > Thanks Matthias. What is the reason that cups is the default installation? > > Pretty much because CUPS is the next generation of printing protocols. > New versions of Windows support CUPS directly, and CUPS can be > implemented on just about any Unix-like system (including Mac OS X, > which ships with a CUPS client). > So it makes sense to support CUPS out of the box, because it seems like > everyone is migrating to it. So then if it installs by default, do you have to configure it and use it, or can you just ignore it and print from windows the old way? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message