Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:16:25 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Howard Picken <howard@tasbusiness.net.au> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Repost: Internet Print Protocol Message-ID: <3B5B5EC9.9FC85FAC@iowna.com> References: <NEBBINKDCLOMKGJEKECHKENECBAA.howard@tasbusiness.net.au>
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Howard Picken wrote: > > Senario > > Win2K Server as internal network server with printers on it > that are Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) enabled. > > Domain and mail hosted in house on FreeBSD box > acting as firewall etc set not allow access to IP's > under .10 > > Has anyone tried to setup or has done IPP by passing info through > the BSD box to the W2K Servers etc. > > I don't know much about FreeBSD as I've inherited looking > after the box but I'm slowly learning. Ahem ... First off, are you passing info at the TCP/IP layer, or through the application layer? If at the IP layer, it's simply a matter of making sure your firewall is configured to allow access to the correct ports. If you want to print from FreeBSD to W2K or vis-versa, look into the samba suite. It's in the ports and allows a lot of communication between SMB-based systems (W2K, for example) and UNIX systems (FreeBSD included) -Bill -- It may be that true happiness is nothing more than the ability to *always* know the right thing to say at the right time, whereas true misery is the state of perpetually saying to oneself, "What I *should* have said was..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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