From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Mar 6 12:50:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA22998 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from eff.org (root@eff.org [204.253.162.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA22991 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:50:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from 204.253.162.77 (chelsea.eff.org [204.253.162.77]) by eff.org (8.6.13/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA20639; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:49:55 -0800 Message-ID: <313DFA72.6808@eff.org> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 12:49:54 -0800 From: Dan Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov CC: doc@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Printing... X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook80.html#86 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Just read through the FreeBSD manual about printing... you may want to add some pointers on how to get FreeBSD to spool jobs to a remote machine, such as on a network. Its really pretty easy. The steps are something like: - Get printing working on the machine which will be the spooler. - On the spooler, edit /etc/hosts.lpr, adding entries for each remote host which is allowed to use the printer. - on the remote machine, edit the printcap file something like: lp|ben|benjamin|HPIVM:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/:\ :pl#72:pw#85:\ :sf:\ :rm=eff.org:\ :mx#0: Thanks for your efforts! Much appreciated. Later. Dan -- Dan Brown | System Admin for the Electronic Frontier Foundation |brown@eff.org PGP sig available upon request