From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 22:04:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08FD16A400 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:04:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A90FD13C4AA for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:04:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay6.apple.com (relay6.apple.com [17.128.113.36]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l28M4vZL008259; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:04:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay6.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay6.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 4025A100E6; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:04:57 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807124-9c41ebb0000007df-99-45f08889bfb0 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 294FD100E4; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:04:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <001701c761c8$a448b3d0$4a074c0a@andypc2> References: <001701c761c8$a448b3d0$4a074c0a@andypc2> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:04:56 -0800 To: Andy Kendall X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Printing recommendations please X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:04:57 -0000 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....