SOLVED: printing from FreeBSD to a WinXP print server

[David J Brooks]

On Friday 21 July 2006 10:08, David J Brooks wrote:
> 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

The answer to my own question is: don't try to add printer using KDE... use 
the CUPS web interface instead. I didn't get the smb deal working, but I was 
able to attach to it as an lpr spool using the generic postscript driver. 
Unexpectedly, the quality of the print is a bit better than it was when this 
printer was directly connected to my FreeBSD box.

Thanks to Kirk, Warren and Andrew  for the helpful suggestions. If you guys 
ever get to Houston look me up and I'll buy you a beer. :)

David
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