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 ?

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.

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usb printers?  see ulpt(4).  some also work as ugen(4), if the driver

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.

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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 ? I
Installed only samba server at the moment.

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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

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.

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