Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 21:14:01 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Samba Message-ID: <384F1069.9BED9D83@twave.net> References: <384DB6DA.BDEBFE3B@twave.net> <384DD2D3.ED43217F@owp.csus.edu>
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Joseph Scott wrote: > Walter Brameld wrote: > > > > I got curious and installed FreeBSD on my new Win98 machine as I > > would like to eventually migrate over from Winbloze. My problem is, my > > printer is installed on another machine (running Win95) on my home LAN, > > and I haven't figured out yet how to access it from the BSD pc (Okay, so > > I've been running BSD all of 3 weeks now, I'm old, the brain is getting > > ossified, and in a few more days I'm gonna turn my son loose on it, and > > then we'll ALL be sorry...). I installed Samba on BSD, started looking > > at the documents, and immediately went cross-eyed (Long day). > > If anyone else out there has run this rabbit, would you be willing to > > send a few pointers to at least get me headed in the right direction? > > > > Just to make sure I'm following you here, basically you want to print > from you BSD box to a printer shared on a Windows box? If that's what > you are looking for I'd recommend looking at : > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch07_02.html > > I've never actually done that ( printed from BSD->Windows printer > share ) but this seems to give the details on how to do it. > > Joseph Scott > joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu > Water Programs - CSU Sacramento This is probably the answer I'm looking for. Too danged sleepy to fight with it at the moment, but I'll let you know if I'm successful. Thanks for your time, and what do you want for Christmas? Walter Brameld To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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