Subject: Re: slightly off topic: printing from a windows machine to cupsd
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: David S. <davids@idiom.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/23/2002 13:18:57
> > 
> > no, I want to be able to print from a windows machine to a printer
> > attached via lpt to a netbsd machine running cupsd. I want to do this
> > without using samba.
> > 
> > I found out that win2k can do this easily... it looks like a problem with
> > windows 98.... but I'm not completely sure.
> > 
> win98 [I believe] and win95 or older, all require some kind of additional
> software to make them work and play well with lpr [and lots of other
> standards]. 

Acitslpr is a free LPR client for Windows 95/98:

	http://www.tux.org/pub/net/lprng/WINDOWS/acitsplr/

You can use it to print to an ordinary Unix LPR queue.

David S.

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