Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:00:38 -0500 From: Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org> To: Paul Halliday <dp@dove.penix.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing. Message-ID: <3E31A976.5000100@trini0.org> References: <20030124095544.P56977@dove.penix.org>
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Try CUPS. I have an article at the FreeBSDDiary (http://www.freebsddiary.org/cups.php) on the steps I took to set it up. Now I have Windows and FreeBSD sending print jobs to a Samba box, and it works great... Paul Halliday wrote: >Hi. > >After finally converting my wife from the dark side and installing FreeBSD >on her laptop I have run into a few problems. Before I ran all print >services on one of my free boxes and ran samba so that she could print to >it. Which works out quite well because you use the original >windows drivers so maintanence/quality are a snap. Now that the box is >running free I had to play around with apsfilter to try and achieve the >same performance. Apsfilter is a great package but just isnt producing as >I had hoped ie. slow, quality isnt 100% etc. So much to my chagrin I >installed a win2000 box and hooked the printer up to that. I am just now >trying to figure out how to do the reverse of b4, printing from all my nix >boxes to this 2000 box using the windows drivers. I still have samba >running but I am unsure how to approach this. > >I would love to hear anyone elses experiences with this sort of situation, >even other solutions. > >Thanks. > >Paul Halliday. >http://dp.penix.org >------------------- > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://dev.trini0.org:81/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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