Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:22:02 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Printing on Windows printers from FreeBSD [was: Re: freebsd as a desktop ?] Message-ID: <20011206171718.P51015-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <20011206150205.GH13203@hades.hell.gr>
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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, And here another EU 0.01: I have my printer on my FreeBSD machine (= samba server) and "mounted" it as a Windows printer via C:> net use lpt3: \\machine\printer Uli. ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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