<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Reg<div><br></div><div>I know people using bHyve and zadm to run OpenBSD routers for unsupported Wifi Cards so having a Binary printers to IPP Proxy is perfectly feasible. </div><div>My Own print server is a Linux Box on a Spare RaspberryPI that also handles USB Scanning and has a Webinterface. Ever since Windows 11 removed some </div><div>Printer support Linux has become the only Option for OOTB Printer Servers.</div><div><br></div><div>-Till<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 20 Sep 2026, at 05:52, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev <oi-dev@openindiana.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It seems to me we should be able to run a Linux instance using VirtualBox which functions as a network connected print server. The printer is on the net physically and the OI - Linux instance com is internal.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">This would allow using commonly available Linux configuration files by simply installing the driver in the Linux print server instance.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Has anyone done this? I don't see any serious technical difficulty doing this other than sheer annoyance.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Have Fun!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Reg</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>oi-dev mailing list<br>oi-dev@openindiana.org<br>https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>