Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:22:33 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Reichmuth, Philipp" <p.reichmuth@gtw-bonn.de> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Macintosh/FreeBSD printing question Message-ID: <200006160222.VAA69979@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Reichmuth, Philipp" <p.reichmuth@gtw-bonn.de> of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:33:46 %2B0200." <9107ABB800B3D311A45D0008C72492E52A00F6@EXSRV01>
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"Reichmuth, Philipp" writes: > > Now I've got a laser printer that I want to attach to the BSD machine for > shared print services. Having the Windows machine print on the BSD box is > not a problem using Samba, but how do I enable AppleTalk print services on > the BSD machine? > > Or is there any other way, such as a Mac driver for lp-based print servers? Yes, the current Macintosh Laserwriter (Postscript) print drivers know how to talk to lpd daemons. When I last needed that feature it wasn't available. When one has a choice the best thing to do is get a laser printer with ethernet interface. Then the Mac has no problems printing to it directly speaking native protocols. Many Postscript printers that don't have ethernet do have LocalTalk. You might consider a LocalTalk network just for the Macs to print. A Postscript printer hosted on FreeBSD using the netatalk port (so the FreeBSD system will speak Apple's network protocols and services) is not an ideal solution. Some applications, namely Adobe Acrobat Reader require a bi-directional connection to a Postscript interpreter in order to print. So I did as I suggested above, my Mac and FreeBSD system were at the same desk. The Mac got a PhoneNet/LocalTalk link to the printer, the FreeBSD system got a parallel port connection. The printer is an Apple Personal Laserwriter NTR. The Mac happily speaks TCP/IP out ethernet, and AppleTalk thru the LocalTalk wire. The only problem with this is that the FreeBSD system couldn't do AppleShare file serving as it was not on the wire the Mac was looking. If the printer is not Postscript then you'll have to make it look that way with Ghostscript. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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