Hello: I believe Samba is the answer to your question. There are how-to's around explaining its' installation, but I ended up buying a book in the subject. It walked me step by step on configuring Samba properly, and more importantly, it had some very good trouble shooting advice. It also described many, if not all the options available. Among them, its' ability to allow a linux client to send a print request to a winbox. Now, in my case, I have my printers connected to my linbox, but I will quote from the book: "It is also possible to use UNIX client machines to access printer shares installed on windows servers. This is achieved by adding a printer definition to the /etc/printcap file and configuring it to send all output through the smbclient program. All this work is done through a shell script that comes with Samba called smbclient." So there is hope. If you are interested, the name of the book is "Special Edition Using Samba" by Richard Sharpe with Tim Potter and Jim Morris, published by QUE. ISBN: 0-7897-2319-0. Good luck.
Dexter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: [newbie] File/Printer Sharing with Windows > I need to be able to have two-way file access with Windows machines on the > same network as my Linux box. I also must be able to print from my Linux > box to a printer connected to a Windows machine on the network. > > Someone suggested I look at Samba, but I'm having trouble finding how to > install it. I'm pretty much a total newbie on Linux, so maybe some general > help in this area would be helpful. > > What I have read about Samba so far seems to say that it is used for > sharing files coming in and printers that are attached to the Linux > machine, but I need two-way file sharing and the only printer is connected > to a Windows machine and can not be moved. Will Samba do what I want or do > I need to look elsewhere? > > Setup: two machines running Windows ME and one machine running Mandrake > Linux 8.0 (the Power Pack boxed set if that matters), on a standard > ethernet network connected through a NetGear RT314 router. The printer, a > HP LaserJet 5p, is connected directly to one of the Windows machines and is > shared for all machines on the network to use. All machines are also > connected to the Internet through the router, which is connected to a 3Com > 'tailfin' cable modem on a 768K/128K pipe. The Internet connection works > fine under Linux, so I believe the network is setup and operating correctly > on the Linux machine. > > Thanks for any help, > > Ron > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
