From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 13 10:22:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA11973 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 10:22:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA11968 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 10:22:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA03411; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 11:21:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512131821.LAA03411@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: WFW and NetWare printing To: jonas@mcs.com (Lars Jonas Olsson) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 11:21:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jonas@mcs.net In-Reply-To: from "Lars Jonas Olsson" at Dec 13, 95 08:05:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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.