Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:38:20 -0600 (CST) From: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com> To: mjanosi@numacorp.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network printing Message-ID: <199703272038.OAA09195@d2si.com> In-Reply-To: <7E33592427B@numacorp.com> from Miki Janosi at "Mar 27, 97 02:13:08 pm"
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> Hello all,
> Let me give a little background before I ask the question. We have
> numerous networks, Sun, Netware, and Mac printing to some HP laser
> printers. I asked my sys admin how to print to any of them from my
> PC, I have both DOS and BSD on it. He told me to erase BSD and install
> Linux and he'd think about helping me. I can ping the printer and I
> know there must be a way to print to it, but will I be able to do it
> without my sys admin's help? I have limited permissions in netware,
> but I might have enough on the Sun box. If anyone has any
> suggestions, please also e-mail my address, mjanosi@numacorp.com,
> because I have only e-mail access to the internet and I had to quit
> the mailing list because of the volume of e-mail. TIA!
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Miki Janosi NUMA Corporation, Akron, OH
> Tel: (330) 925-5000 x.455 email: mjanosi@numacorp.com
>
If the printer does support lpd, it should make very little
difference what UNIX system you are using. I'd run over to a sun
and check out /etc/printcap and see what the settings are. You
may also want to try something like
lp:\
:lp=:\
:rm=hostname.of.printer:\
:rp=raw:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd:
which I dug up on the questions archive.
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