Printing to a Windows

[Eric Schuele]

Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> 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.

FWIW:
Here's a howto that helped me:
   http://www.lanside.net/article.php?story=20031007161002250

> 
> 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
> 


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Regards,
Eric