From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 12:38:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA19773 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:38:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from d2si.com (cs2-10.protocom.com [204.72.128.210]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA19766 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:38:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alec@localhost) by d2si.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA09195; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:38:20 -0600 (CST) From: Alec Kloss Message-Id: <199703272038.OAA09195@d2si.com> Subject: Re: Network printing In-Reply-To: <7E33592427B@numacorp.com> from Miki Janosi at "Mar 27, 97 02:13:08 pm" To: mjanosi@numacorp.com Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:38:20 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Miki Janosi is responsible for: > Hello all, > Let me give a little background before I ask the question. We have > numerous networks, Sun, Netware, and Mac printing to some HP laser > printers. I asked my sys admin how to print to any of them from my > PC, I have both DOS and BSD on it. He told me to erase BSD and install > Linux and he'd think about helping me. I can ping the printer and I > know there must be a way to print to it, but will I be able to do it > without my sys admin's help? I have limited permissions in netware, > but I might have enough on the Sun box. If anyone has any > suggestions, please also e-mail my address, mjanosi@numacorp.com, > because I have only e-mail access to the internet and I had to quit > the mailing list because of the volume of e-mail. TIA! > --------------------------------------------------------- > Miki Janosi NUMA Corporation, Akron, OH > Tel: (330) 925-5000 x.455 email: mjanosi@numacorp.com > If the printer does support lpd, it should make very little difference what UNIX system you are using. I'd run over to a sun and check out /etc/printcap and see what the settings are. You may also want to try something like lp:\ :lp=:\ :rm=hostname.of.printer:\ :rp=raw:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd: which I dug up on the questions archive.