From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 11:26:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B28FE37B405 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:26:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4418C43E4A for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:26:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 25322 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2002 20:25:08 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO pcmarpxy.tninet.se) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 23 Jul 2002 20:25:08 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: Roman Neuhauser , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: using a printer shared from a windows machine Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:26:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20020723132904.GA7060@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020723132904.GA7060@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200207232026.05449.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> 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 Tue July 23 2002 15:29, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > Hi there, > > sorry for this OT question, my excuse is that it is somewhat related > to my freebsd box. :) > > i have this problem: my computer is the only non-windows pc in the > office. There's one NT4 server with a shared HP 5L which the other > win2k boxen use for printing. i've read (parts of) > /usr/share/doc/en/books/corp-net-guide, and it looks like i *should* > be able to use that printer provided the NT box had something called > "Microsoft TCP/IP Printing" installed, which it doesn't. > > what i need to know is: if i add the "tcp/ip printing" service, will > it affect the other (win2k) computers?=20 Well you will need a reboot > will it be necessary to change anything yes...... you need to install it.....=20 >or will that change go unnoticed? depends on how awake your sysadmin is :-) > > or, do i have any other options if i want to print on that printer? There is always mtowtdi but I use this method ....... tcp/ip on the win= dows=20 box and cups on the unix boxes and it works really nicely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message