From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 7:19:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8078437B419 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 07:19:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a110.otenet.gr [212.205.215.110]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fB6FJ6d13777; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:19:06 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB6F25L15158; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:02:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:02:05 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Doug Poland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Printing on Windows printers from FreeBSD [was: Re: freebsd as a desktop ?] Message-ID: <20011206150205.GH13203@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001-11-28 09:32:46, Doug Poland wrote: > I don't know how to print to MS shared printers. I recommend Ted's > book to cover that. If you install Samba, you can use smbclient for this. On a Windows printer that speaks PostScript, I used to send documents with: $ echo print filename.ps | smbclient \\machine\printer Just my EU 0.02, -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message