From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 7 15:44:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gelding.steeds.com (shire.steeds.com [206.246.71.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E8E37B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:44:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (vicky@localhost) by gelding.steeds.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA30955; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:43:53 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:43:53 -0500 (EST) From: Vicky Staubly To: Ben Hacker Jr Cc: list DC-FBSD , questions FBSD Subject: Re: fug-washdc How to build a (Ext. JetDirect like) PrntSrvr In-Reply-To: <20010107200423.17256.qmail@web4501.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ben Hacker Jr wrote: > How can I make an old 486 into a Network Printer server?? > > I would like to be able to print to a printer connected to this PC > from a windows 9x or NT client located elsewhere on the LAN. > > Do I have to install Samba to share the printer or can I build a > simple printer server some other way?? Well, NT will talk to a LPD daemon, which probably comes standard on most installs. I won't vouch for whether it will then use the proper driver to do nice graphical printing (as opposed to raw text). But since you need Samba anyway to allow it to be accessed from any Win9x machine, I'd go ahead and install Samba. I used an old Pentium 75 (running Linux) as a print server for a mixed Win9x/NT/Linux/FreeBSD home network in that way. The Windows machines then just need the regular driver for whatever printer you have attached to your print server. -- Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ vicky@steeds.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message