From owner-freebsd-net Sat Feb 20 21:57:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FFD11A0B for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:57:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08062; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:10:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36CF955C.1F2A25AC@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:10:52 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Denninger Cc: Matthew Hagerty , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote printer access References: <4.1.19990220222633.00960240@mail.venux.net> <19990220213509.A15555@Denninger.Net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Karl Denninger wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 10:33:38PM -0500, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I hope this is not off topic, if it is, please excuse me and if kindly > > point me to the correct list, thanks. In general, questions is a good place for questions like this. The -net list is supposed to be for discussing the design and implementation of networking in FreeBSD. You were close, so we won't throw you out on your virtual ear. ;^) > > Is there a generally accepted method for accessing remote printers with > > FreeBSD? I have to servers located in different states and I need to print > > to a printer located on one server from the other server. Both are > > connected the Internet via dedicated ISDN. I'm running FreeBSD-3.x on both. > > Uh, lpd? :-) Yeah. In particular, see the "sample remote printer" entry in your /etc/printcap file. A good book on UNIX system adminstration will probably help, too. I recommend the O'Reilly book, but I understand the Nemeth & Seebass et al book is very good, too. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message