Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:39:12 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> Cc: Matthias Teege <matthias@mteege.de>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on samba install Message-ID: <3E78AB40.7080300@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20030319122441.A30811@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030319010137.A22604@skytrackercanada.com> <86r8933hdg.fsf@gic.mteege.de> <20030319121355.A30619@skytrackercanada.com> <3E78A696.8030009@potentialtech.com> <20030319122441.A30811@skytrackercanada.com>
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David Banning wrote: >>>>>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? You can ignore it if you don't need it yet. I have CUPS installed on the server here, but I've never configured or enabled it, and lpr printing works just fine. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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