From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 15 18:13:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hp06.postech.ac.kr (smtp.postech.ac.kr [141.223.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A148237B405 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 18:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lahaye@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from users.sourceforge.net (surfion4.postech.ac.kr [141.223.126.84]) by hp06.postech.ac.kr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27974 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:14:44 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3B52401F.7F63F718@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:15:11 +0900 From: "R. Lahaye" Organization: Postech X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freeBSD.org Subject: How to configure easily a remote printer? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 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 Hi, I'm very new to FreeBSD, coming from years of Linux experience. In Linux the printer setup is so easy done using the printtool or kups (interface to cups) scripts. A few click with the mouse and the remote printer is connected and operational. Is there an easy-to-use interface around in FreeBSD that does all the setup for me, like the printtool/kups in Linux? I have cups installed, but that doesn't seem to come with an easy interface. When I read the handbook of FreeBSD on this issue, I can't believe how much I have to know about the tweeking and settings of all the system files. How much memory to share, whether the computer at the other side does this or that and so on (i.e. manually editing the /etc/printcap or /usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf !?!?!). (BTW: I need to connect to a W98 box with an HP printer). Thanks for help, Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message