Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:10:47 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com> Cc: worldly BSD <worldlybsd@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using FreeBSD as a printer server Message-ID: <4.3.0.20000630120837.01ea4740@mail.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006301444410.9424-100000@rac6.wam.umd.edu> References: <395CE95C.E50396A3@home.com>
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At 02:46 PM 6/30/2000 -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: >Also, be sure to configure the printer under lpr because usually samba >will pipe stuff to lpr... at least that's how I do it... so in addition to >looking at samba, I would recommend looking at the manpages for lpr and >lpd... and printcap. Those will have some good information for you to >start. Also look at www.freebsd.org in the handbook for printer >setup. There are some useful scripts there. You may also want to take a look at apsfilter in the ports. If your printer is supported, it really makes getting printing working a no-brainer. You'll still need ot get samba up and running, but apsflter will help getting lpr/printcap working with ease. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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