Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 20:32:40 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> To: Thor Clark <thor@paxs.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up a network printer Message-ID: <1564.807132760@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jul 1995 11:50:52 -0000." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950730114427.7208C-100000@localhost>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.91.950730114427.7208C-100000@localhost>, Thor Clark writ es: >Hello- >I've got a good one--I'm running FreeBSD networked with >a few Win95 machines. These machines can route through the >FreeBSD machine, and I can ping them, etc, and ftp directly >to them. There is no WinNT server, though. >One of these machines has an HP laser printer connected to it, >and I'd like to print directly from the FreeBSD machine to >the printer. I have no idea how to do this -- if anyone has >any ideas please let me know, or pointers, anything really. Reverse the situation and it should work. Put the Laserjet on the FreeBSD box, and run pcnfs on it. You should then be able to print from the DOS/Window's PC's, although the software to do it may not exist for '95 yet :-( (That's how I have 2 machines and 1 printer and print from both - pcnfs is nice, although a big security hole). Gary
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