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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:51:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        davidvon@airmail.net
Cc:        "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Printer Server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980928094817.10716A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <360D244B.B940C170@iadfw.net>

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On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, David L. Vondrasek wrote:

> I have a local network at home consisting of serveral Win95 adn FreeBSD
> box's.  I have a HP660C connected to my daughters WIN95 computer and all
> the WIN95 computers use it over the network, I guess you can call it the
> print server, How can I tell my FreeBSD box to send all printing to this
> machine ? I am using TCP/IP over the local network so they all have
> access to a BSD box that is set up as a gateway to the net. 

For the basics, take a look at the chapters about printing in the
handbook. You should set up an input filter which uses `smbclient' to send
the print job to the W95 box; `smbclient' is supplied by the Samba
package. The man page describing `smbclient' will give you further aid. 

Konrad Heuer

// Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH
// Goettingen (GWDG), Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany
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