Thanks for all the responses. I ended up taking Mint off the server and
using Windows XP, mainly because there is no Linux driver for one of my
printers (a Samsung CLP-325). I did try and get around that by having
VirtualBox start up and load virtualised Windows XP when the server was
switched on, but it all got too complicated and we had reliability problems.
I should point out, though, that the problem was not communicating with
the server, but actually mounting a share from the server in a directory
on my main PC -- and I needed to do that in order to run Lucky Backup.
I've commented before about what seems to me to be the unnecessary grief
caused by a massive over-proliferation of printer (and other) drivers.
I've yet to see why fifty different printers all performing the same
basic functions should require fifty-plus different and incompatible
sets of software to run them.
And I can't help thinking that Linux would benefit from something like
the Windows Network Setup Wizard and the Tools/Map Network Drive option
in the Windows Explorer -- both of which have been around for well over
ten years now.
But thanks again, and I will try some of the suggestions if and when a
suitable printer driver becomes available.
Jon.
On 22/09/11 19:34, Jeremy Visser wrote:
On 22/09/2011, at 1:08 PM, James Linder wrote:
2) Use nautilus to 'connect to remote server'
Even fewer keystrokes, in Nautilus hit ^L (or anywhere in GNOME, hit Alt+F2
instead), and type 'ssh://yourserver.local'.
GNOME even makes the remote filesystem available to command-line apps via
~/.gvfs. So much easier than sshfs for day-to-day use.
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