Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:03:15 -0700 From: kline <kline@thought.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: printcap Message-ID: <1285182195.2803.15.camel@newtao> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009211949400.68641@wonkity.com> References: <4C990766.7080305@nagual.nl> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009211949400.68641@wonkity.com>
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On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 19:57 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > > Can somebody point me to some information about what to write into > > /etc/printcap on a FreeBSD machine for a Laserjet that is connected though > > CUPS on an OpenSolaris server? > > It's not clear how that printer is connected. If it's on the network > itself, you should be able to send jobs directly to it. If the printer > is connected by USB or something else to the server, CUPS might still > accept jobs from lpr. (Untested, but it's a print server, after all.) > > Network printing from printcap (among other things) is shown here: > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html > > Well, and in the Handbook, too. By Jove, this actually works... but from ethic, so far. "ethic == ns1"; i wonder if this will work on my "newtao" which is ubuntu. FWIW, I AM having more trouble transitioning after some N years since 2.0.5... . lp|b5250| Brother HL-5250-DN | PSgs;r=1200x1200;q=high;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\ :lp=:\ :sh:\ :mx#0:\ :rm=netlaser:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: If _anybody_ onlist uses FreeBSD as their server and some version of Linux elsewhere **and** have a network-type printer, please clue me in. ((Exactly this reason--_printers_--has kept me from trying anything but *BSD.)) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org http://journey.thought.org
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