From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 12:10:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [192.216.136.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C2837B5FB for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@megadeth.org) Received: from shawn.megadeth.org (shawn.megadeth.org [192.216.87.244]) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA39014; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.3.0.20000630120837.01ea4740@mail.cpl.net> X-Sender: megadeth@mail.cpl.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:10:47 -0700 To: Kenneth Wayne Culver , "Raymundo M. Vega" From: Shawn Ramsey Subject: Re: using FreeBSD as a printer server Cc: worldly BSD , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <395CE95C.E50396A3@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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