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From: "Michael C. Newell" <mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov>
To: Thor Clark <thor@paxs.com>
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Subject: Re: Setting up a network printer
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On Sun, 30 Jul 1995, Thor Clark wrote:

> 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.
> TIA

How about snarfing a copy of WinLPD?  It's available in the simtel 
collection on wcarchive...  Run it on the Windoze machine (it's a Winsock 
app and should be compatable with MS TCP) and set up a remote printer in 
the FreeBSD machine...

Thanks,

Mike

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