Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 16:17:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Randy <randyd@nconnect.net> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: samba printing Message-ID: <XFMail.960906161854.randyd@nconnect.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960906092635.27970C-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
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Thank you!!
It DOES work like a charm!! :)
Randy
On 06-Sep-96 Nadav Eiron wrote:
>I have a similar setup here, and I don't use samba! I say: use TCP/IP and
>not NetBIOS if you can have it that way. NT server will let you serve
>printers as if it were running lpd. It will even serve remote printers
>that it connects to over NetBIOS (like printers connected to Win95
>workstations who can't manage those tricks).
>
>Look in the NT Networking Manual (I think). There is a chapter on TCP/IP
>printing with instructions on how to export an NT printer to a UNIX host.
>On the FreeBSD machine, I simply followed the instructions in the
>Handbook for setting up a remote lpd printer. Here is my printcap entry:
>qms|QMS|qms420|QMS420|QMS 420 via NT:\
> :sh:lp=:sd=/var/spool/lpd/qms:rm=darcy.barcode.co.il:\
> :rp=QMS420:
>
>And lpq -Pqms will give:
> Windows NT 3.5 LPD Server
> Printer QMS420
>
>Owner Status Jobname Job-Id Size Pages Priority
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>It takes some time to answer. Don't hit ^C too soon...
>
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