On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:40:27PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: > Le Wednesday 22 December 2010 23:40:03, Jacob Meuser a icrit : > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:20:47PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I would like to use a printer on the server and share it like samba > > > supports, have it a shared network printer through openbsd server. > > > > > > The printer is actually a usb one that I would like to connect to the > > > server. Is this basically working ? supported ? > > > > usb printers? see ulpt(4). some also work as ugen(4), if the driver > > supports that. > > > > > Printer is Brother HL 2030, driver seems available for Linux. Can you > > > recommend the best way to proceed ? It's first time for me, I saw things > > > such as cups, never dive into yet. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2030 > > > > that gives you some hints. granted, they're talking about linux so > > not all of that is relevant, but the recommeded driver is hl1250, which > > is in the 'gs' binary of the ghostscript package. > > Hi, > I'm not used to install printer on Unix, not sure to understand if ulpt / ugen > are enough to handle that printer ? Need cups or a printer driver ?
you don't /need/ cups. it might be easier, or it might be a pain. you do, however, need to set up a print filter (sometimes referred to as a driver (yes, it's confusing)) because your device doesn't do postscript natively. > I > Installed only samba server at the moment. samba is a whole other issue. get your printer working locally first. http://onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/07/08/FreeBSD_Basics.html should get you started http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/printing.html is a bit more verbose. it's also somewhat dated, but lpd has not changed much over the years. -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
