Printing.

[Garrett Cooper]

On Dec 19, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Greg Groth wrote:

> Is there any consensus on which method I should use to enable  
> printing on my 6.1 desktop?  The printer in question is an old HP  
> Deskjet 500.  I recall there being issues regarding cups in the not  
> too distant past, and am wondering if I should look at something  
> else.  I'm running KDE (and sometimes Gnome), and looking to be  
> able to print from Firefox, opera-linux, bluefish & openoffice.  I  
> would also like to set it up to be able to be a network share via  
> Samba. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Greg Groth

Configuring Samba (aka "Windows filesharing on Unix") is pretty  
straightforward. See: <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ 
books/handbook/network-samba.html>.
-Garrett

PS Would you happen to work at Greg's Garage for Imports in the  
Seattle area? Just curious..