From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 14:26:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B8215A11 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:26:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1223.bossig.com [208.26.241.223]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA29057; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <370BCCEB.BFB88F22@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 14:23:55 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@3-cities.com Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Milliken, Scott" Cc: "'Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai'" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMB Printing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Milliken, Scott" wrote: > > Unfortunately the printers in question are directly connected to some NT > servers and do not have JetDirect cards, so there is no direct printing to > the IP address. www.samba.org didn't have anything that I could find on the > subject, which is why I decided to submit the question to the mailing list. > Linux has the utility called smbprint, but I haven't found a similar utility > in the ports collection. Probably because I'm sure you can print without > having to have that utility. Have you tried adding LPD svcs to your NT server. It is a port that is available. Kent > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai [SMTP:asmodai@wxs.nl] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 4:46 PM > > To: Milliken, Scott > > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: RE: SMB Printing > > > > On 07-Apr-99 Milliken, Scott wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out just how to put an entry in /etc/printcap > > > so that I can print to a Samba shared printer. > > > If there is an FAQ that covers this, I'd certainly like to know where. > > > I've checked the FreeBSD handbook and the www.freebsd.org web pages to > > no > > > avail. > > > > Dumb suggestion mayhaps, but have ye tried the obvious at www.samba.org? > > > > Other thought that hit me, dunno if I understood yer situation correctly, > > would be to just print using IP to the printer. In that case ye don't need > > to mess with foreign spoolers. But than again, I might have misunderstood > > yer situation. > > > > HTH, > > > > --- > > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven > > asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... > > Network/Security Specialist > > *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message