Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:41:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Cc: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Printing to networked printers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980512104013.2985M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980512093513.213A-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>
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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
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