Alan & Kerry Shrimpton([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > I know most people have their Linux box connected to the net. I have my > windows machine. > > I know most people probably have their printers connected to their Linux > machine. I have it connected to my windows machine. <--snip--> > > That is my situation and now to my real question. > > 1. How the heck do I see my windows machine on my Linux machine? > 2. How do I get my Linux machine to print using my printer hardware > connected to my windows machine?
samba > > > No doubt I need to install some packages but what ones? apt-cache show samba - should get you started. You should have an smb filesystem enabled in your kernel as well CONFIG_SMB_FS=m CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT=y CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE="cp437" CONFIG_SMB_NLS=y Another one to check is apt-cache show xsmbrowser :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) -- Warning, keyboard not found. Press Enter to continue. _______________________________________________________
