From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 10:41:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13116 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 10:41:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13076 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 10:41:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA03085; Tue, 12 May 1998 10:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:41:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ben Cohen cc: Malte Lance , 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 On Tue, 12 May 1998, Ben Cohen wrote: > > > 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? AFAIK the netcon clients are the only ones. ncpfs is probably a Linux thing. NT does come with a lpd server and I think Novell sells a LPD module. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message