Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:41:12 EST From: "M.C Wong" <mcwong@hotmail.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2.2.5R Printing questions Message-ID: <19980122004113.14062.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi, This is a dump question which I need help with after reading through the handbook. In our network, we have an NT server (sigh ...) that serves as the print server for 3 printers: HP5Si, HP4MP, HP1600C and all of the printers have NIC and IP address. I want to set up my FreeBSD 2.2.5R to print to those printers. Preferably I would want to use the NT as a remote print server and specify it in printcap as :rm. Tried that but I always get this message: waiting for nt.domain to come up where nt.domain is the hostname of the NT. Alternativelty, I can use netprint (Perl script) to print directly to port 515 of those printers. But, I am concerned with interfering the spooling mechanism currently managed by the NT server. I wonder if I simply use netprint, would I accidentally interfere with job that is sent for printing by the NT server ?? Also, does anyone know of capability of those printers if we can probe them for status so that if the printer is currently busy, then the script would hold back a while and retry later, which means I would have to modify netprint to do that. Alternatively, if someone has better suggestions, please let me know. Many thanks in advance. M.C Wong ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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