Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 11:21:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jonas@mcs.com (Lars Jonas Olsson) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jonas@mcs.net Subject: Re: WFW and NetWare printing Message-ID: <199512131821.LAA03411@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <m0tPro2-0005yHC@mars.mcs.com> from "Lars Jonas Olsson" at Dec 13, 95 08:05:14 am
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> Now that FreeBSD has NetWare support is there any way to have a > printer attached to a FreeBSD machine be both a Windows > for Workgroup (Samba) and NetWare printer? (I have NetWare 4.1 > and should sometime soon get the free NetWare/IP.) > If this doesn't work, is there any other way to have a printer > shared between WFW and NetWare? Without buying anything? I have > some UnixWare 2.0.3 machines that might be the missing link. FreeBSD has IPX. FreeBSD does not have "NetWare support". The NetWare print porotocol is bogus anyway. There is no "end of job" notification; instead, the rprinter protocol uses line silence to detect the end of a job. This is all very timing dependent unless you rigidly enforce timing on a scale similar to that in Native NetWare. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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