From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6C1AF1F3-615A-44D5-827F-C7DBCA98067C@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Keith Poole Subject: Re: [9fans] CUPS printing Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:14:52 +0000 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 421ee5b0-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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