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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:24:40 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: question on samba install
Message-ID:  <p05200f3cba9e81d1bddd@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20030319010137.A22604@skytrackercanada.com>
References:  <20030319010137.A22604@skytrackercanada.com>

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At 1:01 AM -0500 3/19/03, David Banning wrote:
>If I install samba without cups, is it still possible to
>print with samba?
>
>I have a small network with a few win boxes and the samba
>install is older.  It doesn't have cups.
>
>I am just wondering, since samba now installs cups by default,
>whether it is actually -needed- for win boxes to print to the
>FreeBSD printers.

 From my understanding of the samba port, it will use CUPS by
default *if* cups is installed.  Otherwise it still uses
standard bsd-lpr printing.

There may be some environment variable that you'll have to set
when building the samba port if you do not want the samba port
to install the CUPS port.  But it definitely works, if you want
it to run that way.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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