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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!newshub.csu.net!csulb.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!shemesh.hq.tis.com!dira.rv.tis.com!not-for-mail From: mark@dira.rv.tis.com (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Printing from BSD to WFWG 3.11 server Date: 25 Sep 1996 14:29:21 -0400 Organization: Trusted Information Systems Lines: 25 Message-ID: <52btm1$gq7@dira.rv.tis.com> References: <32434289.4CF1@albury.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dira.rv.tis.com In article <32434289.4CF1@albury.net.au>, Ross Wheeler <ross@albury.net.au> wrote: > >I have (been lumbered with) a site where a printer-server is run on a >Windows-for-Workgroups 3.11 box. On the same network is my BSD box, which >I'd like to be able to print from. > >Is there any (practical/easy) way to set one of the WFWG printer >resources as an available printer? What if any additional software will I >need to do it? You could look at Samba. Samba is a server that speaks the "Microsoft Networking" (not 'the microsoft network') protocol over TCP. It also includes a client with an interface that resembles ftp. You can get software to make windows for workgroups speak the same protocol over IP from ftp.microsoft.com. BSD/OS 2.1 comes with Samba. Also read comp.protocols.smb. If you are only going to serve one printer, it will be cheaper to buy another printer though -- it takes quite a while to figure out how to make this whole setup work. It pays off if you are going to share a bunch of printers or if your BSD box is offer file/printer service to a bunch of PC's.