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Date:      Fri, 06 Sep 1996 16:17:10 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Randy <randyd@nconnect.net>
To:        Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: samba printing
Message-ID:  <XFMail.960906161854.randyd@nconnect.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960906092635.27970C-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>

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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...
>



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