printing on Novell Network

Mike Bilow mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net
Thu Apr 25 18:29:00 EDT 1996



Elizabeth Williams wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 EW> Forgive me for my ignorance.

This is not simple stuff.

 EW> My officemate has a Linux machine and would like to print to 
 EW> the  printers on our LAN. Does anyone know how she could do 
 EW> this? 

What kind of a LAN is it?  If you have a TCP/IP LAN, Linux can probably use
your lpd as is.  If you have a NetBEUI LAN, such as you might with a Windows
for Workgroups or Windows 95 network, then you would have to at least support
TCPBEUI (NetBIOS encapsulated by TCP/IP) on the servers and use the Samba
utility on Linux.  If you have a NetWare IPX LAN, then the Caldera commercial
dsitribution of Linux (about $70 street price) comes with a NetWare client.
 
-- Mike




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