Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:03:30 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: David Banning <david+dated+1176157833.5ab901@skytracker.ca>, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote printing question Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070404180157.02537268@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20070404223031.GA63690@skytracker.ca> References: <20070404185612.GA92861@skytracker.ca> <20070404202548.GA90143@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20070404223031.GA63690@skytracker.ca>
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At 05:30 PM 4/4/2007, David Banning wrote:
> > Well, if your printer has its own Ethernet card and an IP address
> > you can just set things up to go directly to it with no server.
> >
> > Or, what is that router? If it is something like a FreeBSD box or
> > other more full service system, it can probably handle the task of
> > serving the printer as well.
>
>Thanks Jerry.
>
>I don't want to use a server. So the router would have to do NAT.
>Is it possible that way for the outside world to address the
>printer directly since it has a network address, and not a
>www IP?
You can probably setup the router to forward the ports used by that
printer. The ports you'd need to forward are dependent on the printer driver.
-Derek
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