From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 24 12:35:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mw3.texas.net (mw3.texas.net [206.127.30.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B379D37BB5F for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:35:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Received: from donhome.texas.net (tcnet07-13.austin.texas.net [209.99.35.76]) by mw3.texas.net (2.4/2.4) with ESMTP id OAA29896; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:34:59 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200006240405.VAA36937@foobie.net> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:34:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read To: Stephen Beitzel Subject: RE: Sharing a printer in a mixed environment Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Jun-00 Stephen Beitzel wrote: > I'm setting up a LAN that's decidedly heterogeneous. We've got a few > FreeBSD machines, a couple of Linux machines, some Windows 98, a Windows > 2000, and at least one Macintosh (OS 9, I believe). I'd like to get a > printer that everyone can use. Do you have any suggestions how I might > set that up? > > Steve There is a hard way and a easy way hard --- FreeBSD + Printer +SAMBA + APPLETalk futz thru the nasty details of /etc/printcap & filters easy --- http://www.lexmark.com/printers/network.html Regards, ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Don Read To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message