From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 19:13:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37AE316A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:13:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A377443D5D for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:13:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:12:58 -0600 Message-ID: <41F2A5C1.2090403@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:13:05 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kiffin Gish References: <000001c50075$4d7b7f80$9900000a@ZGISH> <20050122130433.F2927@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <000e01c50098$b42f60c0$9700000a@XGISH> In-Reply-To: <000e01c50098$b42f60c0$9700000a@XGISH> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jan 2005 19:13:01.0829 (UTC) FILETIME=[64649B50:01C500B6] cc: "Colin J. Raven" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot connect to printer... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:13:16 -0000 Kiffin Gish wrote: >Like I said, this is just my laptop connected to a printer via the parallel >port. > >Nothing to do with Windows, Samba nor a web server. > >I'll be happy enough if I can get the basics up and running. > >-------------------------------------------- >Kiffin Gish >Gouda, The Netherlands > > You might try installing apsfilter to do some of this work for you. Last time I did it, it took care of driver selection and /etc/printcap configuration quite well and automagically, with a shell "setup" script that only asked a few questions that needed my input. It's in ports (/usr/ports/print/apsfilter), and you might be able to find out it your printer would work with it at www.apsfilter.org (I'm pretty sure it would....) It's nice software, IMHO, and who knows, maybe Andreas doesn't yet have a postcard from your location.... Kevin Kinsey