Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:12:41 -1000 From: al plant <noc@hdk5.net> To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: network hook up for Win 10 laptop on Freebsd Message-ID: <5772F659.1030408@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: <19599.128.135.52.6.1467150299.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <5772D3C8.1050902@hdk5.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1606281452450.57984@wonkity.com> <5772EB8A.5090908@hdk5.net> <19599.128.135.52.6.1467150299.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Tue, June 28, 2016 4:26 pm, al plant wrote: > >> Warren Block wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, al plant wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Aloha List, >>>> >>>> I have aquired a Dell Laptop Inspiron 14 -3452 Windows 10 O/S. >>>> >>>> Box has Hdmi, USB and media card reader ports . Also Wireless network >>>> hookup. >>>> >>>> The network is FreeBSD 8 and has an old HP Laser jet printer and >>>> several desktops with FreeBSD that work with the printer. >>>> >>>> We want to print email received on the Dell on the network. The >>>> FreeBSD network is hardwired with cables and connectors. The Telcom >>>> link to internet is wireless and cable mixed. Any ideas how I can do >>>> this with the new Dell? Can I use converter connectors to the cable >>>> and connect the Dell to the switch that the other working units >>>> connect to now. >>>> >>> Is the "FreeBSD network" connected to the wired port of the cable box? >>> The wireless portion is probably shared with the wired. From the >>> notebook, ping the laser printer. Odds are good that will work. >>> >>> The step after that is adding a printer on the Windows system. The >>> trick there used to be telling it to use a "local port", then creating >>> a port for the IP address of the printer. I don't know if or how much >>> Microsoft might have changed that in later versions of Windows. Which >>> version do you have? >>> > > They didn't change anything. You can create two kind of ports (at least > two). Namely: you can create "raw" port, and give there IP address of the > printer. This printer has to listen to "jetdirect" port (9100) for this to > work. The other way is if printer listens to LPD ("spooler") port (port > number 515) (or better: print server, - I usually set up all printer to > only accept print jobs from print server - easier to manage especially if > something is wrong with some client). In this case, you need to enable two > services on Windows side (through "turning on features"): UNIX printing > related: "LPD Print Service" and "LPR Port Monitr". This teaches Windows > talk UNIX printing language, you then create local port of type LPD (and > put remote LPD server's IP there). I found this to be the most robust way > of having Windows printing to UNIX print queues. > > I hope, this helps. > > Valeri > > >>> >> Thanks Warren, I will look at this. >> >> Windows 10 >> >> My wife works with a mix of mac, windows at her job and her It guy has >> had a couple of issues that never were reserved mostly to do with age of >> printers. This we hoped to side step by the network. I cant figure out >> how you get the network hooked to the windows. I am looking to info on >> what ports could work on the box. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> ~ Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 ~ >> Supporting FreeBSD - UNIX Computer O/S >> email: noc@hdk5.net email: alplant.att.net >> ."All that's really worth doing is what we do for others" - Lewis Carrol >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Thanks Valeri, ~ Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 ~ Supporting FreeBSD - UNIX Computer O/S email: noc@hdk5.net email: alplant.att.net ."All that's really worth doing is what we do for others" - Lewis Carrol
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