From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 14:18:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA01447 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 14:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [206.54.227.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA01441 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 14:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arabian.sylvester (saddlebag.execpc.com [169.207.8.57]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA29464; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 16:11:54 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4 [p0] on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 16:17:10 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Computer Specialists From: Randy To: Nadav Eiron Subject: Re: samba printing Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thank you!! It DOES work like a charm!! :) Randy On 06-Sep-96 Nadav Eiron wrote: >I have a similar setup here, and I don't use samba! I say: use TCP/IP and >not NetBIOS if you can have it that way. NT server will let you serve >printers as if it were running lpd. It will even serve remote printers >that it connects to over NetBIOS (like printers connected to Win95 >workstations who can't manage those tricks). > >Look in the NT Networking Manual (I think). There is a chapter on TCP/IP >printing with instructions on how to export an NT printer to a UNIX host. >On the FreeBSD machine, I simply followed the instructions in the >Handbook for setting up a remote lpd printer. Here is my printcap entry: >qms|QMS|qms420|QMS420|QMS 420 via NT:\ > :sh:lp=:sd=/var/spool/lpd/qms:rm=darcy.barcode.co.il:\ > :rp=QMS420: > >And lpq -Pqms will give: > Windows NT 3.5 LPD Server > Printer QMS420 > >Owner Status Jobname Job-Id Size Pages Priority >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >It takes some time to answer. Don't hit ^C too soon... >