From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 21: 8:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC7037B742 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:08:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from dannyh.freebsd.org (surry-pool-238.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.238] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA03659; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 14:09:04 +1000 From: Danny To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: using FreeBSD as a printer server Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 14:13:12 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: worldly BSD , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00070114141902.03614@dannyh.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Use Apsfilter to setup your printer install apsfilter from the ports then start up your lpd deamon in the startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d lpr whaterver.ps to print On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > "samba" can offer Windows print services, you can find it in > > the port collection. afaik HP Laserjets will provide lpd like > > services, it is a bit tricky to configure but I've done it > > before, just be persistant and you ought to be able to get > > it working. > > If the Laserjets are HP4+ or later and have the network I/O cards, there's > nothing tricky about them. Some of the earlier ones had a few quirks, > though. > > In fact, it was easy enough that when my Cannon 8sx (HPIII clone, same > mechanics, slightly different electronics, got it used 5 years ago) > finally died, I picked up an HP2100NT as my home printer. For $875 I got > a PS-aware printer that connected to the network via 10BaseT, 1200dpi > and/or 10ppm, 500 sheet bin capacity, that both FreeBSD and Win9X can > print directly to without needing a print server :-) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- You are not authorized to use my email address for any purpose. This is a violation of my privacy. Remove my email address from your databases immediately. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message