Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:19:20 -0800 From: chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>, Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing on Windows printers from FreeBSD [was: Re: freebsd as a desktop ?] Message-ID: <200112061619510.SM03904@there> In-Reply-To: <20011206150205.GH13203@hades.hell.gr> References: <20011206150205.GH13203@hades.hell.gr>
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On Thursday 06 December 2001 07:02 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2001-11-28 09:32:46, Doug Poland wrote: > > I don't know how to print to MS shared printers. I recommend Ted's > > book to cover that. > If you install Samba, you can use smbclient for this. On a Windows > printer that speaks PostScript, I used to send documents with: > =09$ echo print filename.ps | smbclient \\machine\printer > Just my EU 0.02, > -giorgos My .02 worth also - I have two printers - one (hp deskjet) on a FBSD box, the other (epson=20 stylus color400) on a win98 box. From any FBSD or Winblows machine on my home network (7 pcs, mixed os's), I can print to both printers. I used apsfilter to do the setup of the printers on the fbsd boxes, and sam= ba to share the hp. And of course the winblows printer is shared and accessa= ble to the fbsd boxes. -- Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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