Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
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> On 2010-04-24 20:00:32, bofh <goodb0fh () gmail ! com> wrote:
>
> Parallel port printers....  I want the printouts this minute!!! :).
>
> I heart printers with lpd (especially with postscript)
>
> Specifically, I heart my Brother printer.  I've heard of
> incompatibilities with some postscript stuff, but like the yeti and
> sasquatch, never saw one myself.  No issues printing from windows,
> osx, linux or openbsd...
>
> On 4/24/10, Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net> wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:14:33PM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> OpenBSD, the project, doesn't seem to have a preferred method of
>>> printing.
>>>
>>> What do OpenBSD, the developers individually, prefer?
>>>       
>> Any printer that groks postscript and either has a parallel port, a
>> usb port that acts like one, or lpd support over net.
>>
>> 	-Otto
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I'm looking specifically ay how to print to a USB printer that is
> hanging off an XP box.
>
>   

Samba will permit that.  The thing that sucks is embedding the password 
in a shell script.  But for a printer?  Not been a big deal in my 
experience.


Basic outline - create a share on the XP box
install Samba from packages/ports
create a shell script that calls smbclient -P \\pc-name\sharename  password

Works like a charm!  Been using that type of thing for the last 10 years.

Cheers,
Steve