From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 19:03:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3683B10657CF for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:03:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA028FC28 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.47.0.110] (newtao.thought.org [10.47.0.110]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o8MJ3AmN059360; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:03:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) From: kline To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: References: <4C990766.7080305@nagual.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Thought Unlimited Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:03:15 -0700 Message-ID: <1285182195.2803.15.camel@newtao> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on ethic.thought.org Cc: Dick Hoogendijk , FreeBSD Subject: Re: printcap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:03:17 -0000 On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 19:57 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > > Can somebody point me to some information about what to write into > > /etc/printcap on a FreeBSD machine for a Laserjet that is connected though > > CUPS on an OpenSolaris server? > > It's not clear how that printer is connected. If it's on the network > itself, you should be able to send jobs directly to it. If the printer > is connected by USB or something else to the server, CUPS might still > accept jobs from lpr. (Untested, but it's a print server, after all.) > > Network printing from printcap (among other things) is shown here: > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html > > Well, and in the Handbook, too. By Jove, this actually works... but from ethic, so far. "ethic == ns1"; i wonder if this will work on my "newtao" which is ubuntu. FWIW, I AM having more trouble transitioning after some N years since 2.0.5... . lp|b5250| Brother HL-5250-DN | PSgs;r=1200x1200;q=high;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\ :lp=:\ :sh:\ :mx#0:\ :rm=netlaser:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: If _anybody_ onlist uses FreeBSD as their server and some version of Linux elsewhere **and** have a network-type printer, please clue me in. ((Exactly this reason--_printers_--has kept me from trying anything but *BSD.)) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org http://journey.thought.org