From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 25 19:11: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D20F37B7AE for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:10:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA34555; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:10:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:10:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Joe Warner Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Remote printing In-Reply-To: <395609EA.643F3684@uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Joe Warner wrote: > Just about all of the printers we have at work are HP LaserJets with > Jet Direct cards in them. I was just trying to get my FreeBSD machine > to print remotely to an HP 4000 just outside my cubicle. Ah hah! the JetDirect makes it much simpler. With a JD, you don't need to mess around with Samba, netatalk et al. The way it works is that the JD card appears (to the FreeBSD box) to be a computer with a printer attached. You can use the printer's front panel to give it an IP address, then edit your DNS or /etc/hosts to give the printer a "host name." You will also need to edit /etc/printcap; here's mine, in part: # HP laser lp|filth|lj|ps|HP LaserJet 4MV:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ :mx#0:\ :lp=:rm=printername:rp=printername: That last line is the important part. > I have already received a response from someone else who also > recommends using apsfilter. I'll try this tomorrow. Is apsfilter > hard to configure? I wasn't able to figure it out, but luckily it turned out not to be necessary for me. HTH. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message