Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:24:41 -0500 From: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>, Matthias Teege <matthias@mteege.de>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on samba install Message-ID: <20030319122441.A30811@skytrackercanada.com> In-Reply-To: <3E78A696.8030009@potentialtech.com>; from wmoran@potentialtech.com on Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:19:18PM -0500 References: <20030319010137.A22604@skytrackercanada.com> <86r8933hdg.fsf@gic.mteege.de> <20030319121355.A30619@skytrackercanada.com> <3E78A696.8030009@potentialtech.com>
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> >>>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
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