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From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
Cc: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Printing on Windows printers from FreeBSD [was: Re: freebsd as
 a desktop ?]
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On 2001-11-28 09:32:46, Doug Poland wrote:
> > I don't know how to print to MS shared printers.  I recommend Ted's
> > book to cover that.
>
> If you install Samba, you can use smbclient for this.  On a Windows
> printer that speaks PostScript, I used to send documents with:
>
> 	$ echo print filename.ps | smbclient \\machine\printer
>
> Just my EU 0.02,
And here another EU 0.01:
I have my printer on my FreeBSD machine (= samba
server) and "mounted" it as a Windows printer via
C:> net use lpt3: \\machine\printer

Uli.


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