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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-hub.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-16.sprintlink.net!gol2!tao!usenet From: Doug Lerner <doug@inJapan.net> Subject: Windows 95 + FreeBSD + lpr Question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Sender: usenet@inJapan.net (Charlie Root) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nntp-Posting-Host: pms26.injapan.net Organization: inJapan Message-ID: <32900DDC.7A6C@inJapan.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 07:18:52 GMT Lines: 36 In our place, we have some Macs, some Windows 95 machines and two FreeBSD machines. The other day we bought a printer with an Ethernet/ TCP-IP card (an OKI data Microline 803PS2V). Everything, including the printer, is connected to a hub. After setting the printer's IP address, we were able to successfully print out from our Macs. I probably will be able to print out from our FreeBSD machines after I finish wading through the documentation on how to set it up. But the problem is, we cannot print out at all from our Windows 95 machines. Apparently - and I am no expert on Windows, so I am probably just saying something well-known and obvious - Windows 95 does not support "lpd", which is required for this to work. According to various friends and contact here, I need a "network server that supports lpd" on the network. Then I can have my Windows 95 machines use that server to print through. This seems to be done usually with a Windows NT machine. But I heard it can also be done with Unix, which supports lpd. Since we already have two FreeBSD machines on our system, and since one is hardly doing anything right now anyway, is there a way we can use it so that we can print from our Windows 95 machines? If so, can somebody please tell me how or point me in the right direction for documentation on how to do this. Thank you very much - and thanks again for all the help in the past! Doug Lerner, Tokyo doug@inJapan.net