Re: Staircaseeffect with HP Deskjet Plus

2005-10-18 Thread Rick Preston
On 10/13/05, Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > when I want to print an ASCII-text via lpr to my HP Deskjet Plus I got a > staircaseeffect on my printer. I asked HP for support but they answered: > "... the support stopped nine years ago..." Ups :-( > > I think that a sol

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7

2005-07-14 Thread Rick Preston
On 7/14/05, Aaron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/14/05, Björn König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rick Preston wrote: > > > > > I was going to offer something more complicated, thanks for the tip. > > > I came to realize that both our

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7

2005-07-13 Thread Rick Preston
On 7/13/05, Frank Steinborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amandeep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > Hi all, > > > > Is there a way to reset the root passwd without reinstalling FreeBSD 4.7. > > > > Thanks in advance > > Hi, > > from the loader prompt, boot FreeBSD in single-user mode using "boot >

Re: Share Printers, Printing Long.

2005-06-22 Thread Rick Preston
On 6/22/05, Stephan Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have suscessfully installed my DSL MODEM Behind my FREEBSD Firewall. > Ever Since i have done this, i noticed that my windows users, when trying to > print to shared printers, it takes very long for them to access the > printers.

Re: l2tp server

2005-06-14 Thread Rick Preston
On 6/14/05, ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > we will do the dsl service and want to use freebsd as > l2tp server. > > do you have idea? > > is it successful? > > tks Hi, I have had good sucess with m0n0wall. Based on FreeBSD 4.x http://m0n0.ch/wall/ good luck, Rick __

Re: can't figure out ssh, read lots of docs...

2005-06-01 Thread Rick Preston
for letting me spew, Rick On 6/1/05, Steven Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to Nathan Kinkade, Roland Smith, Greg Barniskis, and Rick Preston for > the replies. Each gave me quite a bit of info and I'm still digesting it. > > I've been successful using ss

Re: can't figure out ssh, read lots of docs...

2005-06-01 Thread Rick Preston
You should be able to find everything you need here. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html I set it up in the lab (on 4.7) and it worked great. Good luck, Rick PS. sorry you got it twice Steven, I forgot to click reply all. On 6/1/05, Steven Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Adding a FormFeed to an LPR printcap file?

2005-05-28 Thread Rick Preston
Hi, I believe that :sh is called suppress header and that it suppresses the banner page. Form feed is a control character. hex 0c. In the past I have added it to the bottom of my text or PCL documents or added it in the printer interface script on UNIX systems that use the lpsystem print subsys