printing from FreeBSD to a WinXP print server

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, David J Brooks wrote:

> I can find lots of helpful information about setting up FreeBSD as a print
> server for Windows clients, but I'm not finding anything helpful about
> setting things up the other way. Does anyone have any experience doing this?

Samba's smbclient can send print jobs to Windows print servers.  You may 
have to set up a plain text "printer" on the Windows system to keep it 
from reinterpreting the data.

If the Windows print server (three words that *really* don't go 
together) supports lpd, just use lpr.  A quick search found this, which 
might be helpful to you:

http://iharder.sourceforge.net/macosx/winmacprinter/#step4

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA