From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 14 04:07:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41553106566C for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:07:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFB38FC0A for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:07:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyb11 with SMTP id 11so7831059iyb.13 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:07:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=sjX9r2C/xWFF+1ZHwTuUZi9En9Hodox51vTF8TXdokw=; b=sthPrxFp6LzjiPofTulCTpbQy9IYa5K4Uz8zQXBgGzqJWMMf5lSbaZdhwyDViyqDMH 2B0YWd/U5k+6y1QMad/ZafhW6KwJ5neu+vJGWMni9g8o7bP1/zGAG5AT4d5tUtRaxoun xQOPEcQ/GQHoVOIPbF3JeYX8dkp3sqOUgxuAU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.159.131 with SMTP id l3mr2170044icx.298.1310616428955; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.166.74 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:07:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110714055931.28221157.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4E1DE8D7.2050003@colannino.org> <20110714055931.28221157.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:07:08 +0000 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: James Colannino , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS and Windows Printers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:07:10 -0000 On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Polytropon 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