Printing to a Windows

[Hauan David A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pietro Cerutti [mailto:pietro.cerutti at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:29 PM
> To: FreeBSD
> Subject: Printing to a Windows
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> I would like to print from my FreeBSD box to a Windows 
> printer on a Win2003 server on my LAN. I read the handbook, 
> the CUPS documentation and the chapter on the Absolute BSD 
> book, but I can't get things working.
> 
> My problem is that I really can't understand the basis, how 
> things are connected between cups, samba and the Kde printing system.
> 
> Can anyone explain me how does the thing have to be done?
> 
> some info:
> > uname -spr
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE i386
> 
> > pkg_info | grep cups | cut -d " " -f 1
> cups-base-1.1.23.0_3
> cups-lpr-1.1.23.0
> cups-pstoraster-7.07_3
> 
> > pkg_info | grep samba | cut -d " " -f 1
> samba-3.0.11,1
> samba-libsmbclient-3.0.11_1
> 
> Thank you for helping, best regards

If your dead set on CUPS I can't help.

Otherwise,
Enable print services for unix on the w2k3 box
and create a printcap entry for the IP of the
w2k3 box just as you would any normal tcp/ip
printer.

dave