printing from FreeBSD to a WinXP print server
David J Brooks
daeg at houston.rr.com
Fri Jul 21 15:08:04 UTC 2006
On Friday 21 July 2006 06:09, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 7/21/06, David J Brooks <daeg at houston.rr.com> 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?
>
> I do it every day:
>
> http://www.freshports.org/print/cups-smb-backend/
Here I run into the same problem that I have with Warren Block's lpr
suggestion. Following the instructions
at:http://iharder.sourceforge.net/macosx/winmacprinter/
I have everything working fine at the XP server side. But when I try to add
the networked printer from my FreeBSD box, starting at KMenu->Print
System->Print Manager I enter administrator mode and
select 'Add printer/class' from the Add menu. This starts the Add Printer
Wizard. I select remote LPD Queue add the host and queue info. At the Printer
Model Selection page I check the box for Postscript Printer and get a
warning dialog: "Unable to find the Postscript driver."
I have Ghostscript installed and it has served me well in the recent past, so
I know it's there. Why can't KDE find it? Where is it looking for the
postscript driver?
David
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