From: "Matthew Larson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:10 PM > Hey, does anybody know how I would connect to a windows machine to > transfer files? Whould I have to mount to some network folder? > > Also, if my printer is attached to this same [computer]? How do I print to > it? I was able to find a utility in my gnome menu under "system > settings -> printing", but I can't seem to get it to work right. > > Any ideas?
Samba is what you need: www.samba.org. It is the means by which linux/unix computers can connect to or server up file shares and printers on/for windoze computers. This is not a trivial program that you can quickly understand and setup; it'll take a lot of work but will be a great learning experience. If this seems too daunting, you may want to go the other way: get windows setup to access unix services. You would need a NFS client/server for windows (and setup NFS on linux). You may also be able to setup windows unix printing service (or something like that). All of this cost money. So you have the option of free/difficult/learning experience or money/relatively easy/you haven't learned much. I would definately suggest you go to www.samba.org and start reading. Don't be afraid of breaking things, try it out, see if you can share a simple directory, then try more difficult things. Search around Google for answers and ask away on this list. Have fun, Matt W. PS If you just want to get a few files off of your windows computer, try ftp-ing them to the linux computer. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
