Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:37:21 -0600 From: "Hauan David A" <david.hauan@fairchild.af.mil> To: "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>, "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Printing to a Windows Message-ID: <59FD5336D1B1FA40AF6DDD241D8DBAC6017CC83E@amcw2ms517.amc.ds.af.mil>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Pietro Cerutti [mailto:pietro.cerutti@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:29 PM > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Printing to a Windows > > > Hi folks, > I would like to print from my FreeBSD box to a Windows > printer on a Win2003 server on my LAN. I read the handbook, > the CUPS documentation and the chapter on the Absolute BSD > book, but I can't get things working. > > My problem is that I really can't understand the basis, how > things are connected between cups, samba and the Kde printing system. > > Can anyone explain me how does the thing have to be done? > > some info: > > uname -spr > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE i386 > > > pkg_info | grep cups | cut -d " " -f 1 > cups-base-1.1.23.0_3 > cups-lpr-1.1.23.0 > cups-pstoraster-7.07_3 > > > pkg_info | grep samba | cut -d " " -f 1 > samba-3.0.11,1 > samba-libsmbclient-3.0.11_1 > > Thank you for helping, best regards If your dead set on CUPS I can't help. Otherwise, Enable print services for unix on the w2k3 box and create a printcap entry for the IP of the w2k3 box just as you would any normal tcp/ip printer. davehelp
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