Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:28:27 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Printer sharing Message-ID: <E0wgvrn-0002FN-00@rover.village.org>
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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. So I was wondering if anybody had run into this problem and sovled it. I haven't spent much time looking into it, but thought I'd save myself some time if others have blazed this trail before me. One idea that comes to mind is an hpprinterd that runs on my FreeBSD machine and pretends to be a hpxxx printer to the other end of the printer cable and passes through all the data it gets to lpr or something to allow for printer sharing. The stupid windows driver doesn't even support printing via the network device :-(. Has anybody even thought about looking into this? I know I'd need at least three printer ports on the FreeBSD system to do this (one for the win->freebsd communication, and one for each of the printers). Are the device drivers up to the challange? Comments? Warner
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