Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:07:08 +0000 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: James Colannino <james@colannino.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS and Windows Printers Message-ID: <CAJ5UdcPY-FARf-wmJURkVSpS=E7uyi1tx9-0GBudP1pZaT5aww@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110714055931.28221157.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4E1DE8D7.2050003@colannino.org> <20110714055931.28221157.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:49:59 -0700, James Colannino wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> I've been Googling around, trying to figure out how to see Windows >> printers via CUPS on FreeBSD, but so far, all I've found are links >> describing how to share FreeBSD printers with Windows boxes. =A0Can anyo= ne >> tell me how I can connect to Windows printers via CUPS + Samba so that I >> can start getting some work done at the office? :) =A0Thanks so much! > > Not specific to FreeBSD, but maybe this help you: > > Printing To Windows PCs > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/printing_to_wind= ows.html > > Also read chapter 5.1 of this material. > > Obtained by a google search. :-) I can't give better > advice as I'm not a "Windows" person, and I avoid > using CUPS whenever possible (usually by using a > network printer that doesn't need all this stuff), > and due to lack of experience with MICROS~1 stuff > I can't be fully sure that this is what you're > searching for. > > The only thing that comes to my mind is that this > seems to be a command line approach - so in relation > of CUPS configuration mainly done through a web > interface today, maybe you could also ask this > question in a CUPS web forum? > > > > > -- Polytropon, Usually, the web page to work with cups issues is http://localhost:631/ and make changes there if I am not mistaken. But this is after the access is there for the printer :) Regards, Antonio
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