Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:35:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "R. Lahaye" <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cups listing of printers very short. Why? Message-ID: <20010716123302.D65674-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <3B52A802.E10F9B87@users.sourceforge.net>
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I found some patches on the ports list that upgrade CUPS to 1.1.8, but the printer brands are pretty much the same. It works very well for me. If you need to add the smb protocol, follow the docs in sam.html to do this. You need to install Samba, and create a symlink. It's really pretty easy. CUPS is supposed to be easy. If you want more power and flexibility, you should probably go with lpd/lpr with apsfilter or magicfilter or the like. Oh...there are also some web pages out there that tell you how to build your own PPDs for CUPS. You might try search them out on Google. Joe Clarke On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, R. Lahaye wrote: > > Hi, > > FreeBSD ships cups version 1.1.6 (no ports of higher version available). > Am I right that cups is the best tool for configuring (remote) printers? > > I use cupsd in my browser "http://localhost:631/admin" to add printers and > I think the pull-down options are too limited: > > - the Device section has no smb-windows protocol in the list. > > - the 'Make' listing is very short, only "EPSON, HP, OKIDATA". > > - the 'Model' listing is also extremely short, only "HP Deskjet series, HP Laserjet series" > for HP. > > > On another Linux box I use cups 1.1.7, which has many more choices. > > Do I not need these choices under FreeBSD? > Or is there a way to add more choices to my cups installation? > > Thanks, > Rob. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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