From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 09:29:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA10873 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 09:29:21 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA10856 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 09:28:20 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HTX1OCV3OW006PWT@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 18:23:05 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id SAA01615; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 18:36:52 +0200 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 18:36:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: Setting up a network printer In-reply-to: from "Michael C. Newell" at Aug 10, 95 11:10:11 am To: mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (Michael C. Newell) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org (user alias) Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199508101636.SAA01615@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 1968 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 I think what you want is samba.(/usr/ports/net/samba) It allows you to print from FreeBSD as a client to a WfW printer and you can use lanmanager printing from the Win95 side. Though I believe Win95 supports lpr client printing now. > > 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 'WINLPD, sounds nice. > app and should be compatable with MS TCP) and set up a remote printer in > the FreeBSD machine... > > Thanks, > > Mike > > +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ > |Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein are | > |NASA Science Internet Network Systems | my own, and do not necessarily | > |Sterling Software, Inc. | reflect those of the NSI program, | > |MNewell@nsipo.nasa.gov | Sterling Software, NASA, or anyone | > |+1-202-434-8954 | else. | > +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ > | work: http://www.eco.nsi.nasa.gov/~mnewell | > | home: http://www.newell.arlington.va.us | > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de