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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.structured.net!crusty.teleport.com!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How does a printserver work ... Date: 1 Nov 1996 20:57:52 -0800 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 25 Message-ID: <55ekcg$be1@itchy.serv.net> References: <pg918qzy0e.fsf@theta.Microchip.COM> <5586mh$4da@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.tcp-ip:49034 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30430 In article <5586mh$4da@anorak.coverform.lan>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In article <pg918qzy0e.fsf@theta.microchip.com>, > pancholi@theta.Microchip.COM (Vineet Pancholi) writes: >From FreeBSD it's easy - do a "man printcap" and look for the "rm" >capability. > >I suspect it'll be tricky from the Win95 side. You'd be better off >attaching the printer to one of the FreeBSD boxes and "share"ing it >to Win95 via samba ! > Even better, get a Jetdirect card for the HP ; I'm pretty sure you can run TCP/IP and ipx simultaneously on the ether. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson