On Tue, 7 May 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > Hi. I've got a new 1.1 machine which is on a local network which > includes a Win '95 printserver with no IP address. Does anyone > know how to set up printing to such a machine? Will samba allow > printing to a machine with no IP address? >
The Win95 box must be using the TCP/IP protocol for it to interact with SAMBA. TCP/IP requires an IP address, although this address may be assigned by a DHCP (like bootp) server. SAMBA can do a broadcast on the local net to find a NetBios name, so smbclient (the app which you will use to connect to the Win95 machine) *may* be able to find it even if its address is dynamically allocated. If you can get a static address for the Win95 box then it will work without question. _____________________________________________________________________ Don Gaffney (http://www.emba.uvm.edu/~gaffney) Engineering, Mathematics & Business Administration Computer Facility University of Vermont - 237 Votey Building - Burlington, VT 05405 (802) 656-8490 - Fax: (802) 656-8802
