From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 13:29: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B35A37B641 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:28:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA80101; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:48:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <395D029F.4DFABA28@wmptl.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:27:11 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: worldly BSD Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using FreeBSD as a printer server References: <20000630181634.9613.qmail@web5301.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG worldly BSD wrote: > > i am a visualization sys engineer NOT a network sys > engineer so excuse me if this questions seems > simple/silly... > > problem: this office is on a base network and when the > base network has problems we loose services and one of > these services is printing. > > question: is it possible to use FreeBSD as a print > server for an office that uses WINNT/WIN2000 computers > and HP laserjet printers ? if so, where do i start to > read ? > > thanks > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Yes it's possible, you'd have to configure the printers on the FreeBSD box itself, then use a utility like SAMBA to share the printers to the windows machines. Start your reading in the FreeBSD handbook under printing (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/). The just install the samba package and edit /usr/local/etc/smb.conf.sample to suite your requirements and save it as /usr/local/etc/smb.conf. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message