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#! rnews 1137 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!kurto From: kurto@cc.usu.edu (Kurt Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Windows 95 + FreeBSD + lpr Question Message-ID: <1996Nov20.151225.89360@cc.usu.edu> Date: 20 Nov 96 15:12:25 MDT References: <32900DDC.7A6C@inJapan.net> Organization: Utah State University Lines: 16 In article <32900DDC.7A6C@inJapan.net>, Doug Lerner <doug@inJapan.net> writes: > 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. If you aren't uptight (like anybody is these days) about running TCP/IP on your Win95 boxes, you can use Samba to provide file and printing services from your FreeBSD boxes to the 95 machines. Take a look at: http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/ -- Kurt Olsen (kurto@cc.usu.edu) <a href="http://www.mcs.usu.edu/~kurto/">Me & my Atari Lynx</a> archive.