From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 17:15:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055B237B406 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42CFD43E3B for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g97NjMuF034518; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:45:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g97NjMYe034515; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:45:22 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:45:22 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Brian Henning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Brian Henning wrote: > i plan on setting up a printer server with an old machine. this will be it's > only purpose. Would it be best to run a samba server on that machine if most > of the machine that will be printing are windows or bsd machines? is there > a better or easier way to solve this problem? It depends on what you mean by "Windows". Win9x, yeah, you'll probably need Samba. Win NT/2000 have lpr clients and can print straight to lpd. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message