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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.







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