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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 + FreeBSD + lpr Question
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 20:21:41 UTC
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Doug Lerner <doug@inJapan.net> writes:

(wanting to print from win95 to lpd)

What you want is samba for your FreeBSD machine. Not only will
this let your win95 system(s) see the printer, but it will let you
share files as well.

http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/

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