On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:31 -0400, Lord Raiden wrote: > Hi all. I'm building a Freebsd 5.3 based mini-itx file server on > my network here and I'd like to also turn it into a print server. Thing > is, I've got an HP Deskjet 842c printer that connects via USB that is my > printer. It's not lan capable which kinda complicates things. THEREFORE, > I'd like to connect it via USB to the new file server, then set it up to do > printing for the whole network. Now, my questions are this. > > 1. What do I need to do to set this up on the file server? Heck, if > someone's got a tutorial somewhere on setting up a print server using > freebsd and can tell me what special configs I need to make my usb > connected HP printer work off it, that'd be awesome. > > 2. What do I need to do to get my freebsd workstation to print to it? To > date I haven't gotten around to configuring printing on the Freebsd > Workstation (it's running 4.10) yet, so I think it's time I did > that. Again, a tutorial would be welcome. > > 3. What do I have to do special, if anything, to allow my windows machines > to print to the printer via the print/file server on the network? I'm > running both 98se and WinXP Pro on them. > > Sorry to bug you guys with something so trivial, but google wasn't > being friendly to me with this subject, so I'm coming to you guys > next. Thanks in advance for any answers. :D > > > > Steven Lake > -Owner/Webmaster > Raiden's Realm > www.raiden.net
Here you go: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/printing.html#id2579155 -- GnuPG key : 0xD25FCC81 | http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.asc Fingerprint: D182 6F22 7EEC DD4C 0F6E 564C 691B 0372 D25F CC81
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