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Date:      Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:37:21 -0600
From:      "Hauan David A" <david.hauan@fairchild.af.mil>
To:        "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>, "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Printing to a Windows
Message-ID:  <59FD5336D1B1FA40AF6DDD241D8DBAC6017CC83E@amcw2ms517.amc.ds.af.mil>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pietro Cerutti [mailto:pietro.cerutti@gmail.com]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:29 PM
> To: FreeBSD
> Subject: Printing to a Windows
>=20
>=20
> Hi folks,
> I would like to print from my FreeBSD box to a Windows=20
> printer on a Win2003 server on my LAN. I read the handbook,=20
> the CUPS documentation and the chapter on the Absolute BSD=20
> book, but I can't get things working.
>=20
> My problem is that I really can't understand the basis, how=20
> things are connected between cups, samba and the Kde printing system.
>=20
> Can anyone explain me how does the thing have to be done?
>=20
> some info:
> > uname -spr
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE i386
>=20
> > pkg_info | grep cups | cut -d " " -f 1
> cups-base-1.1.23.0_3
> cups-lpr-1.1.23.0
> cups-pstoraster-7.07_3
>=20
> > pkg_info | grep samba | cut -d " " -f 1
> samba-3.0.11,1
> samba-libsmbclient-3.0.11_1
>=20
> Thank you for helping, best regards

If your dead set on CUPS I can't help.

Otherwise,
Enable print services for unix on the w2k3 box
and create a printcap entry for the IP of the
w2k3 box just as you would any normal tcp/ip
printer.

dave



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