From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 7 19:45:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B28D14EAD for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 19:45:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mothra.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.76.220]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA75678; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 19:45:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Message-ID: <384DD2D3.ED43217F@owp.csus.edu> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:38:59 -0800 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Walter Brameld Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Samba References: <384DB6DA.BDEBFE3B@twave.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Walter Brameld wrote: > > I got curious and installed FreeBSD on my new Win98 machine as I > would like to eventually migrate over from Winbloze. My problem is, my > printer is installed on another machine (running Win95) on my home LAN, > and I haven't figured out yet how to access it from the BSD pc (Okay, so > I've been running BSD all of 3 weeks now, I'm old, the brain is getting > ossified, and in a few more days I'm gonna turn my son loose on it, and > then we'll ALL be sorry...). I installed Samba on BSD, started looking > at the documents, and immediately went cross-eyed (Long day). > If anyone else out there has run this rabbit, would you be willing to > send a few pointers to at least get me headed in the right direction? > Just to make sure I'm following you here, basically you want to print from you BSD box to a printer shared on a Windows box? If that's what you are looking for I'd recommend looking at : http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch07_02.html I've never actually done that ( printed from BSD->Windows printer share ) but this seems to give the details on how to do it. Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message