Configure name, description and location. Hopefully you should see your printer in local printer. Go into Administration > Add Printer, it will ask for credentials, enter root and your root user password (don’t worry you only need to do this to install the printer). # Only if you need a Linux only binary filter # If you have a GDI printer that needs a special binary filter that only works on Linux, you should load the linux and linu圆4 modules in FreeNAS and install linux-c7 in the jail: # If you don’t have a root password on your jail (and only use sudo), it might be a good idea to setup one with passwd, even if only temporary while you install the printer. Use your web browser and go to and you should see CUPS. You can get the ruleset associated to the jail devfs mount with the following command: $ iocage get devfs_ruleset Each devfs mount has an associated ruleset number specifying how devices must be created on this mount-point.įreeNAS uses iocage to manage its jails. On FreeBSD (and FreeNAS), the creation of device files in /dev is handled by devfs. By default, the content of this directory is pretty minimalist.
That is for the device file to appear inside the jail /dev directory. The main challenge will be to have the USB printer to appear inside the jail. I’ve even heard of someone giving up half way to the solution presented here only to deploy a Windows VM in FreeNAS just to get the printer running. Other solutions explain how to install the printer inside a jail but generally expose all the devices inside the jail just to access the printer. Even if FreeNAS is FreeBSD at its core, it’s not supposed to be used as a full-fledged OS, if you want that, you should use a VM or a jail. Not only all your changes would be overwritten by updates, but it offers limited flexibility and very little guarantee that anything will work or keep working in the future. Some explain how you could install the printer inside (a very old version of) FreeNAS itself, which you should seriously not do. While exploring the subject, I’ve come across several solutions to use FreeNAS as a printer server. Running a printer in a FreeNAS jail may be interesting for home users, especially if you have one of those GDI printers that only provide a x86/amd64 driver for Linux/FreeBSD, and more especially if you happen to have a FreeNAS box in your living room with some free USB ports.
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