From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 9:39: 2 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 3996E37B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:39:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B9C43F93 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:39:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2JHcwTb012720; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:38:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E78AB40.7080300@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:39:12 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Banning Cc: Matthias Teege , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on samba install References: <20030319010137.A22604@skytrackercanada.com> <86r8933hdg.fsf@gic.mteege.de> <20030319121355.A30619@skytrackercanada.com> <3E78A696.8030009@potentialtech.com> <20030319122441.A30811@skytrackercanada.com> In-Reply-To: <20030319122441.A30811@skytrackercanada.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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