From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 8:42: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C2A14DE8 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:42:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mail.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.247]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA42694; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:40:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Message-ID: <386B89A2.4D01BDD3@owp.csus.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:34:42 -0800 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gene Harris Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing Thru Samba? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gene Harris wrote: > > I am trying to copy a feature on my Linux box. I can print > to a printer on my NT server from applications on my Linux > machine via the Linux print queue. > > I examined the method for creating the print queue and the > filter used to connect to the nt box. It looks like it > should translate 1 to 1 on my freebsd server with some minor > changes for directory structure differences. > > Does anyone have any experience using smbclient to connect > to an nt or win95 printer via a print queue on freebsd? I personally have never done, although several people on the list have mentioned it working for them. I would assume ( scary thing ) that you'd be correct that duplicating this should be pretty minimal. If you need a reference you may want to look at : http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch07_02.html Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message