Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:50:31 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: StevenR362@aol.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer sharing Message-ID: <E0wh0tT-0002lE-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jun 1997 18:17:41 EDT." <970625181551_-1428725356@emout12.mail.aol.com> References: <970625181551_-1428725356@emout12.mail.aol.com>
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In message <970625181551_-1428725356@emout12.mail.aol.com> StevenR362@aol.com writes: : You have at least two options that should work. Option one is to buy : a high quality automatic printer switch that is bidirectional : I.E.E. 1280? (can't remember the exact number) compatible. It has to : fully mimic a straight through bidirectional cable. I picked up one for about $25 that I was told was completely compilant. Doesn't work :-(. : Option two is to run Samba on your FreeBSD box with both printers attached : and network mount them on your windows machine. I would have done this : except I already had the switch. This also gives you the added benefit of : being able to mount disk space from your FreeBSD box on your windows : machine. Two $19.00 NE2000 clones will set you right up for less than the : printer switches. Also take a look at apsfilter in ports. It is about as : transparent as you can get for printing from Unix. I'm thinking that this is the best bet. I will most liekly do this. However, there is a gotcha: I have to use a generic PS driver and ghostscript to do this. Otherwise I'm SOL because the HP printer driver will not allow a connection to a network printer :-(. Warner
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