On 29/04/2010, at 2:38 AM, Steve Williams wrote:
Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
On 2010-04-24 20:00:32, bofh <goodb0fh () gmail ! com> wrote:
Parallel port printers.... I want the printouts this minute!!! :).
I heart printers with lpd (especially with postscript)
Specifically, I heart my Brother printer. I've heard of
incompatibilities with some postscript stuff, but like the yeti and
sasquatch, never saw one myself. No issues printing from windows,
osx, linux or openbsd...
On 4/24/10, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:14:33PM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
OpenBSD, the project, doesn't seem to have a preferred method of
printing.
What do OpenBSD, the developers individually, prefer?
Any printer that groks postscript and either has a parallel port, a
usb port that acts like one, or lpd support over net.
-Otto
I'm looking specifically ay how to print to a USB printer that is
hanging off an XP box.
Samba will permit that. The thing that sucks is embedding the
password in a shell script. But for a printer? Not been a big deal
in my experience.
Basic outline - create a share on the XP box
install Samba from packages/ports
create a shell script that calls smbclient -P \\pc-name\sharename
password
Works like a charm! Been using that type of thing for the last 10
years.
Use the -A option to smbclient to hide the password in a file
paulm
