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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] CUPS printing
Date: Sun,  3 Feb 2008 18:43:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3d1fb136ff8850d6fa8565cfbe06e81@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9E617561-D44E-4F97-A756-9513B2D9A769@mac.com>

> 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 18:43 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 [this message]
2008-02-03 20:14     ` Keith Poole

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