Before spending a lot of time on this check out prices for
hardware USB print servers. It's a lot easier to LPR from a
FreeBD system to one of these, than to deal with the USB
device right on the server itself. And these print servers
will accept printing in all kinds of protocols, LPR, IPP,
SMB, etc. etc. so very easy to share the printer with the 'doze
boxen.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lord Raiden
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:32 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Freebsd Print Server
Hi all. I'm building a Freebsd 5.3 based mini-itx
file server on
my network here and I'd like to also turn it into a print
server. Thing
is, I've got an HP Deskjet 842c printer that connects via USB
that is my
printer. It's not lan capable which kinda complicates things.
THEREFORE,
I'd like to connect it via USB to the new file server, then set
it up to do
printing for the whole network. Now, my questions are this.
1. What do I need to do to set this up on the file server? Heck, if
someone's got a tutorial somewhere on setting up a print server using
freebsd and can tell me what special configs I need to make my usb
connected HP printer work off it, that'd be awesome.
2. What do I need to do to get my freebsd workstation to print
to it? To
date I haven't gotten around to configuring printing on the Freebsd
Workstation (it's running 4.10) yet, so I think it's time I did
that. Again, a tutorial would be welcome.
3. What do I have to do special, if anything, to allow my
windows machines
to print to the printer via the print/file server on the network? I'm
running both 98se and WinXP Pro on them.
Sorry to bug you guys with something so trivial, but
google wasn't
being friendly to me with this subject, so I'm coming to you guys
next. Thanks in advance for any answers. :D
Steven Lake
-Owner/Webmaster
Raiden's Realm
www.raiden.net
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