From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 16:19:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307EE37B405 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:19:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from there [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id AAFF8A0F012C; Thu, 06 Dec 2001 16:19:11 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: chip To: Giorgos Keramidas , Doug Poland Subject: Re: Printing on Windows printers from FreeBSD [was: Re: freebsd as a desktop ?] Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:19:20 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011206150205.GH13203@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20011206150205.GH13203@hades.hell.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200112061619510.SM03904@there> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 06 December 2001 07:02 am, 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: > =09$ echo print filename.ps | smbclient \\machine\printer > Just my EU 0.02, > -giorgos My .02 worth also - I have two printers - one (hp deskjet) on a FBSD box, the other (epson=20 stylus color400) on a win98 box. From any FBSD or Winblows machine on my home network (7 pcs, mixed os's), I can print to both printers. I used apsfilter to do the setup of the printers on the fbsd boxes, and sam= ba to share the hp. And of course the winblows printer is shared and accessa= ble to the fbsd boxes. -- Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message