From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 01:43:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28798 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 01:43:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from violet.csi.cam.ac.uk (exim@violet.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28783 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 01:43:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk) Received: from bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.212.250]) by violet.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0yZAdg-0002Ew-00; Tue, 12 May 1998 09:42:20 +0100 Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:42:20 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen X-Sender: bjc23@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk To: Malte Lance cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: RE: Printing to networked printers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > What's the best way to print to a networked printer on a network running > > Novell Netware/MS NT? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.5. > > > > I tried rumba, and it only seems to support mounting Netware directories, > > which I couldn't get working either. Can you suggest why? (Might the > > server be set up not to accept mounting from UNIX machines?) > > Have a look at samba in the ports packages. I am exporting my printers > to the Win-machines via samba and everything works fine. I think samba is for serving, but I want to use a printer connected to a Netware 3.12 host. Someone (who uses Linux) said that I can use ncpfs and compile the kernel with IPX enabled. However, I can't find ncpfs in the ports. Is ncpfs Linux only? Is there an alternative? Thanks. Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message