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From: Keith Poole <keith.poole@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] CUPS printing
Date: Sun,  3 Feb 2008 20:14:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6C1AF1F3-615A-44D5-827F-C7DBCA98067C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3d1fb136ff8850d6fa8565cfbe06e81@quintile.net>

It looks like OSX enables lpd printing when you share a printer on
the network - I just added an entry for that IP address and queue
name of the print & it worked!

Thanks for helping

Keith

On 3 Feb 2008, at 18:43, Steve Simon wrote:

>> I've got a question that you might be able to answer - I've just
>> installed Plan9 on Parallels and I've got the networking set up
>> OK.  Now I want to set up a printer - I've got a HP deskjet printer
>> attached to an OSX server (so I could connect to it via CUPS or
>> SAMBA) - is there anyway to get Plan9 to print to it
>
> forsyth wrote an smb printing client many years ago,
> I am pretty sure I have a copy somwhere if its no longer
> on the net.
>
> Alternatively I would suggest you enable lpr/lpd printing
> on the OSX server which plan9 supports out of the box.
>
> see the lp(8) and /sys/doc/lp.8
>
> -Steve


      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-03 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-03  0:49 Keith Poole
2008-02-03  1:05 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-03 18:43   ` Steve Simon
2008-02-03 20:14     ` Keith Poole [this message]

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