Printing from FreeBSD workstations to a Windows based print server without using Samba. I got fed up dinking with Samba in fairly short order, so this is the route I took. Enter CUPS (Common Unix Printing System). Works really well if you have no need for Netbios shares on your LAN. I also hear it works with Samba as well, but I didn't spend any time on that.

Read on for information on how I got it working.

Read on for information on how I got it working.

Windows Server:

First, we need to make sure "File and Print Services for Unix" is installed.

Control Panel

Actually did my first win32 perl script at work today. What a pita that can be when you are changing from *n?x perl. Most of the problems I encountered were editor issues. Guess I should have just gotten vi for Windows and been done with it.

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# First we'll change into the directory passed in the command line
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$workdirectory = @ARGV[0];
#print ("$workdirectory\n");
chdir ("$workdirectory") || die "cannot cd to $workdirectory";

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# Lets get a numeric date for use in naming the zip files
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$insanedate = `date /t`;
# print $insanedate;