From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 4 11:58:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.mail.yahoo.com (smtp.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E940C15174 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 11:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kenwills@yahoo.com) Received: from 1cust66.tnt1.madison.wi.da.uu.net (HELO spanky.yaberk.int) (63.20.241.66) by smtp.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Sep 1999 12:02:31 -0700 Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 13:50:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Ken Wills Reply-To: kenwills@yahoo.com To: Dan Larsson Cc: "[FreeBSD-Questions-List] (E-post)" Subject: Re: HP-GL/2 Print server In-Reply-To: <01BEF6F9.B9EEB0F0.support@junglenote.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Dan Larsson wrote: > I'm looking for documents on how to serve plotter printouts for > windows based clients (using autocad). The plotter talks HP-GL/2 > through a HP JetDirect module. The current server is windows nt > based but I would like to migrate from nt if at all possible. > You can quite easily do the same with FreeBSD and Samba (www.samba.org). You'll need to do some backgroung reading on unix print spooling (man lpr, man lpd) and closely follow the samba documentation. I'm using a replacement lpd (lprNG) which is available through the ports collection. Make sure your Jetdirect card/box is has recent firmware and supports lpr. Ken _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message