Setting-Up my PC to a Printer in our LAN - FX DocuColor 1250 CP

[Dinesh Nair]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Rommel B. Ikeda wrote:

> hints, help or advice on how to set up my FreeBSD Box so that I can
> finally Print from my PC instead of asking my officemates who are using
> Windows to Print for me...

take a look at /usr/ports/print/apsfilter. it's pretty handy for freebsd
printing in a windows network and handles windows shared printers et al
thru samba. it automagically creates the /etc/printcap entry, so all you'd
need to do is to start lpd for the print to run.

Regards,                           /\_/\   "All dogs go to heaven."
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