From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 10:34:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA20565 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:34:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA20560 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA08491; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:34:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:34:11 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9604231734.AA08491@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: TCP/IP net printers In-Reply-To: <199604231611.SAA29904@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <199604231611.SAA29904@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I got a DecLaser 3500 new in my office. > All I got from the VAX/VMS/NT admin guy (VMS 6.x) > is that it is connected to either \\printe\ln14-e5l > or TCP/IP www.xxx.yyy.zz Port 10001. > I could connect to this printer using smbprint (samba) > but the question came up in me "How does FreeBSD > cope with these TCP/IP printservers"? It doesn't. Normally the printers come with some software which can be used as an `of=' output filter, which actually does the appropriate connection to the remote device. You might try: ttcp -t -p 10001 www.xxx.yyy.zzz 2>/dev/null in an output filter script. Probably lpd should be capable of doing this (when I was at UVM we had such a one). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant