From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 18:50:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8139C150EC for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:50:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA2009 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 03:50:30 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 194; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:54:06 +1100 Message-ID: <386AC7DD.8227DF82@S1.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:47:57 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael G." Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Help w/WFW print server References: <19991230023935.E123A15123@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G'day Michael, > > I have a 486/66 that I was using for some Virtual Reality > stuff and at the moment it has taken on the role as a print server > for my home LAN. It is running WFW 3.11 and DOS 6.2. I've > searched the archives and I only found references to Win95 or NT > setups...the handbook didn't appear to help in this particular case > as well. ..it could be I missed it.... Does anyone have any > experience or pointers with this? I've no experience, but I suspect that if you use smbclient to connect to the shared printer in the same way as with a 95 mchine, this should work. E.g. \\myw4w\printer - except that, I think smbclient wants "//myw4w/printer" rather than the "\"s. Or perhaps use a "\" to 'escape' the '\' - thus "\\\\myw4w\\printer" on the command line. So, something like "% smbclient //myw4w/printer" or "% smbclient \\\\myw4w\\printer" - check the man page for smbclient to check for further details. I did this a while back for a Sun box to win-nt shared printer, I just forget off hand which magical incantation it was ;') My fBSD box prints directly to the IP address of the laser printer :') > > Thanks. > > Michael G. > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > ICQ #24517082 Live FreeBSD...Or Die! > > PIC X 10 VALUE "YES! COBOL" [debugged version] 01 Filler pic x(10) value is "Yes! COBOL". reg's, haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message