From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 12:33:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA20677 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 12:33:21 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA20671 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 12:33:18 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id UAA01566 ; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 20:32:40 +0100 To: Thor Clark cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up a network printer In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jul 1995 11:50:52 -0000." Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 20:32:40 +0100 Message-ID: <1564.807132760@palmer.demon.co.uk> From: Gary Palmer Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In message , 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