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Date:      Mon, 31 Jul 95 12:48:53 MDT
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com (Justin T. Gibbs)
Cc:        thor@paxs.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting up a network printer
Message-ID:  <9507311848.AA24347@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199507301914.MAA20192@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Jul 30, 95 12:14:23 pm

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> >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.  
> 
> SAMBA in the ports collection may allow you to do this.

It won't.

You'll beed to put client services on the BSD box by hacking up
their client paying special attention to how they handle the
incoming print requests in Samba itself.

Basically, this meand moving the SMB-over-TCP client services
into a more general code abstraction.

I've been meaning to put this in the kernel under socket
services, mostly to support BSD mounts of LANManager drives, but
I haven't had time.  In such a design, printing would just be
a bonus; the big deal is allowing it to be a consumer of file
system services.

Maybe in 1997.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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