From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 24 13: 1:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7471237B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:01:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6CCD43EB2 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:01:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsam@trini0.org) Received: from hivemind.trini0.org (bgp626680bgs.brick201.nj.comcast.net [68.39.132.244]) by mtaout05.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.09 (built Jan 7 2003)) with ESMTP id <0H9800HBBL11KB@mtaout05.icomcast.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:00:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from trini0.org (laptop.trini0.org [192.168.0.5]) by hivemind.trini0.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 167052CF; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:00:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:00:38 -0500 From: Gerard Samuel Subject: Re: Printing. To: Paul Halliday Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3E31A976.5000100@trini0.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, nl, th User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021213 References: <20030124095544.P56977@dove.penix.org> 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 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