From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 25 21:40:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA03030 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:40:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from titan.cs.mci.com (titan.cs.mci.com [166.37.6.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA03021 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by titan.cs.mci.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Mar97-0149PM) id AA07801; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:39:38 -0600 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:39:38 -0600 (MDT) From: "Thomas S. Traylor" To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer sharing In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > > OK. I wanna share my two printers between my two systems. Once is a > nice laser printer and the other is a color inkjet printer. Both are > HP printers. The *STUPID* hp driver *REQUIRES* that the printer be > connected to the computer and seems to go to great lengths to detect > and defeat printer share boxes. I used Samba to share a DeskJet 660Cse between a Win95 Laptop and my FreeBSD system. The printer was attached to the FreeBSD box. This worked well and you got the added freature or sharing disks. If you're interested in the filters for lpr let me know. I'm currently using the Axis Pocket Printserver (www.axis.com). It is the 530D. It supports TCP/IP, LPD, NOVEL, LANMAN and MAC. Not much different than running Samba other than I don't have to have all my systems running to use the printer. It came with scripts to configure it for Unix and windows. > Comments? > > Warner > -- Thomas Traylor Thomas.Traylor@mci.com ttraylor@titan.cs.mci.com (719) 535-1269