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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
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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.



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