On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:40:27PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote:
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> 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.

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> 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.

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