From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 5:32:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cask.force9.net (cask.force9.net [195.166.128.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 650B914FE9 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 05:32:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) Received: (qmail 1106 invoked from network); 3 Oct 1999 12:32:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) (212.56.102.127) by cask.force9.net with SMTP; 3 Oct 1999 12:32:44 -0000 Message-ID: <37F74CFD.14F07AD7@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 13:33:01 +0100 From: Richard Morte Organization: Sinclair Associates X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Printing FROM FreeBsd to Windows Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, SMBCLIENT allows a FreeBSD user to print a file to a shared printer on a windows machine: # smbclient \\\\fredspc\\epson \> print /dir/dir/filename etc. This gives very simple printing of files, but is a bit limited. Has anyone discovered if it is possible to attach a shared printer as a FreeDSD resource so that you can print to it from within applications? That is, have the shared (windows) printer appear alongside lp, for example? If anyone has had any success with this I'd like to hear from you. Thanks in advance, Ric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message