Re: CUPS and Windows Printers
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:49:59 -0700 James Colannino articulated: Hey everyone, I've been Googling around, trying to figure out how to see Windows printers via CUPS on FreeBSD, but so far, all I've found are links describing how to share FreeBSD printers with Windows boxes. Can anyone tell me how I can connect to Windows printers via CUPS + Samba so that I can start getting some work done at the office? :) Thanks so much! I have a wireless HP printer connected to both Windows and FreeBSD boxes. Unfortunately, at least as far as I could tell, there is no way to simply use the Windows' driver. I installed the hplip port and it all, after some experimentation, worked well. It is still not as easy as printing from a Windows box to a FreeBSD printer, but it does work. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
CUPS and Windows Printers
Hey everyone, I've been Googling around, trying to figure out how to see Windows printers via CUPS on FreeBSD, but so far, all I've found are links describing how to share FreeBSD printers with Windows boxes. Can anyone tell me how I can connect to Windows printers via CUPS + Samba so that I can start getting some work done at the office? :) Thanks so much! James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CUPS and Windows Printers
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:49:59 -0700, James Colannino wrote: Hey everyone, I've been Googling around, trying to figure out how to see Windows printers via CUPS on FreeBSD, but so far, all I've found are links describing how to share FreeBSD printers with Windows boxes. Can anyone tell me how I can connect to Windows printers via CUPS + Samba so that I can start getting some work done at the office? :) Thanks so much! Not specific to FreeBSD, but maybe this help you: Printing To Windows PCs http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/printing_to_windows.html Also read chapter 5.1 of this material. Obtained by a google search. :-) I can't give better advice as I'm not a Windows person, and I avoid using CUPS whenever possible (usually by using a network printer that doesn't need all this stuff), and due to lack of experience with MICROS~1 stuff I can't be fully sure that this is what you're searching for. The only thing that comes to my mind is that this seems to be a command line approach - so in relation of CUPS configuration mainly done through a web interface today, maybe you could also ask this question in a CUPS web forum? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CUPS and Windows Printers
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:49:59 -0700, James Colannino wrote: Hey everyone, I've been Googling around, trying to figure out how to see Windows printers via CUPS on FreeBSD, but so far, all I've found are links describing how to share FreeBSD printers with Windows boxes. Can anyone tell me how I can connect to Windows printers via CUPS + Samba so that I can start getting some work done at the office? :) Thanks so much! Not specific to FreeBSD, but maybe this help you: Printing To Windows PCs http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/printing_to_windows.html Also read chapter 5.1 of this material. Obtained by a google search. :-) I can't give better advice as I'm not a Windows person, and I avoid using CUPS whenever possible (usually by using a network printer that doesn't need all this stuff), and due to lack of experience with MICROS~1 stuff I can't be fully sure that this is what you're searching for. The only thing that comes to my mind is that this seems to be a command line approach - so in relation of CUPS configuration mainly done through a web interface today, maybe you could also ask this question in a CUPS web forum? -- Polytropon, Usually, the web page to work with cups issues is http://localhost:631/ and make changes there if I am not mistaken. But this is after the access is there for the printer :) Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CUPS and Windows Printers
On 07/13/11 20:59, Polytropon wrote: Obtained by a google search. :-) I can't give better advice as I'm not a Windows person, and I avoid using CUPS whenever possible (usually by using a network printer that doesn't need all this stuff), and due to lack of experience with MICROS~1 stuff I can't be fully sure that this is what you're searching for. That looks like it might help. Thanks for the link. The only thing that comes to my mind is that this seems to be a command line approach - so in relation of CUPS configuration mainly done through a web interface today, maybe you could also ask this question in a CUPS web forum? That would probably be a good idea as well... :) James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
