Subject: Re: NetBSD and Printing - Samba/otherwise
To: Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/17/2000 01:39:46
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Laine Stump wrote:

> >	Come on - help the NetBSD world :)
> 
> Okay, okay! (Man, between you and the local NPR station... ;-) This isn't
> the most coherent thing I've ever written, but a reasonably intelligent
> person should get enough clues from it to make something work eventually:
> 
> 	http://www.laine.org/NetBSD/smbprint/
> 
> gives instructions on one way of setting up a NetBSD machine to send
> PostScript (or straight text) files to a printer connected to an
> SMB-capable machine (eg MS Windows). If the printer isn't itself PostScript
> capable, GhostScript is used as part of the filter to translate into
> something different (PCL in my case).

	Looks pretty good. It also includes a script... hmm - what are the
	chances I could persuade you to turn this into a small package? :)


		David/absolute