On Tuesday 14 March 2006 17:25, Chris Hill wrote: > On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, REINALDO JIMENEZ wrote: > > [ A more descriptive subject line is more likely to get you an answer. > Lots of people delete 'Help' without reading. ] > > > My friend has a Houston Instrument Plotter Model DMP-50 and can not > > get it running to print his school work (AutoCAD DWGs) > > > > Need driver? What he should look for? > > If your AutoCAD is anything like recent, you're running it under > Windows. Au contraire, or however you spell it! I am running 2005 under wine. > Autodesk haven't supported any other platform since Release 13, > which was about 10 years ago. > > I set up something like this years ago, using an HI DMP-61 with FreeBSD > 3.2 or 3.3. What I did was to install Samba on the FreeBSD machine, and > set it up to 'share' the plotter (connected on an RS232 port) as a > printer. Then the Windows clients were able to see the plotter as a > networked printer, and use the native AutoCAD driver for that plotter. > The FreeBSD machine was pretty much acting as a print server for that > plotter. > > Sorry to be so vague, but it was a long time ago. Hope this gets you > pointed in the right direction. > > -- > Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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