From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 17:10:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28522 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:10:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28498 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02768; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:04:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd002765; Wed Feb 11 17:04:39 1998 Message-ID: <34E249C5.794BDF32@whistle.com> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:00:53 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: brian@worldcontrol.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: parallel port autoswitch no go References: <19980211165750.46853@top.worldcontrol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG brian@worldcontrol.com wrote: > > I bought a LinkSys parallel autoswitch so I could share a printer > between my wife's Microsoft Windows 95 machine and my FreeBSD > laptop. While it works on the 95 machine I a get device busy error, > even when the switch is manually set to connect my laptop to > the printer rather than relying on the autoswitch. > > Any ideas? > > -- > Brian Litzinger > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message Connect the printer directly to your machine then run the SAMBA port. This will make your BSD machine a file and print server for win95 machines. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message