Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:01:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Your Name <bg271828@yahoo.com> To: Henry Miller <hmiller@intradyn.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing to OSX shared printer? Message-ID: <20050624170111.60732.qmail@web53405.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200506241129470178.2E6CCF4E@mail.intradyn.com>
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--- Henry Miller <hmiller@intradyn.com> wrote: > > On 6/24/2005 at 07:19 Your Name wrote: > > >i have CUPS set up on my FreeBSD 4.11 box, but i've > >never used it (i've never printed at all from this > >machine). > >i'm looking for the simplest answer to printing > from > >this, not trying to do anything fancy. > > In theory Mac OSX uses CUPS for printing, so you > should be able to plug > things in and have them work. thanks, i guess i wasn't being clear. if i bring another Mac onto the network, and try to print from it, i'll see all the shared printers and i can choose whichever one i want. if I have my FreeBSD machine, how do i see these printers? maybe its there but i don't know about it. when i go to the CUPS admin page to add a printer, at http://localhost:631/admin/?op=add-printer i get blanks for name, location, description. but i don't know about any possible printers, i just want to see a list that i can choose from. the CUPS manual isnt clear on this, it just says if your running OSX then everything will work. but i have no idea how to find the name and address of any printer that happens to be on the network. Jen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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