Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:04:56 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Andy Kendall <andy@kendallnet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Printing recommendations please Message-ID: <DB075938-EC80-40CB-A2F9-15EC181EEB4F@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <001701c761c8$a448b3d0$4a074c0a@andypc2> References: <001701c761c8$a448b3d0$4a074c0a@andypc2>
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On Mar 8, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Andy Kendall wrote: [ ...and... ] On Mar 8, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Andy Kendall wrote: > I've just built my 6v2 box and all is going well so far. I've read the > manual and understand LPD and directly attached printers. The > manual however > is pretty minimal when it comes to network-based printers, > (netprint), and > only mentions LPRng and CUPS on a single page briefly. I understand > this; > it's probably because they're not direct FreeBSD products but this > doesn't > help a newb-to-FreeBSD like me. I only want to build the foundation > system > once, so, any recommendations please on what to install/configure? > (Hope > this doesn't start a bikeshed). You can use the stock lpd to print to remote/network-attached printers just fine-- use the rm and rp arguments in printcap to specify the remote printer's hostname (or IP address, possibly [1]) and spoolname...for JetDirect printers, use "lp" as the spool name, IIRC. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing- advanced.html#PRINTING-ADVANCED-NETWORK-RM Some other people seem to be happy with CUPS, and I believe MacOS X adopted CUPS as well rather than the classic lpd. I've never been a big fan of turning electronic documents into dead trees myself, so I don't have strong recommendations for one versus the other. > Apologies if this is the wrong forum or invalid posting, please > advise. This is the right forum, and welcome. One might wish to be a bit more patient about receiving replies, however, at least if you intended to repost so quickly.... -- -Chuck [1]: Some flavors of Unix insist upon having printer hostnames being well-defined in DNS or /etc/hosts, and do not support IP addresses in printcap. I don't recall whether than limitation is present in FreeBSD, or just a legacy from platforms like AIX or SCO....
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