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From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network Printing
Date: 12 Nov 1995 08:09:35 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Nick Coppins (tran@s054.aone.net.au) wrote:
: Is it possible to print from a FreeBsd box to a printer attached to a
: Win95 box??   running tcp/ip protocol??

I've done it from FreeBSD to MS-NT.  The real question is "does Win95 offer
an lpd style print server".  If it does then you are set.  FreeBSD and any
other BSD box will *easily* print to anything that accepts lpd connections.

The /etc/printcap entry would be something like:

win95printer:\
:lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd:rm=win95box.billgates.com:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: