> 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?
What I usually do is this:
1. Set up file sharing on the Windows box.
2. Install the Linux smbclient stuff (I think: 'apt-get install
samba-client')
3. Use smbmount to mount a network share on your Linux box:
smbmount //windows_ip/folder_name -o username=administrator /mnt/samba
(administrator is the name of the Windows user)
(/mnt/samba is where you want to mount the Windows network share)
Now, when you go to /mnt/samba it is actually going right to your Windows
box. Very cool stuff. Works pretty well also.
I understand you can do this with normal 'mount' and specify '-t smbfs'.
Dr. Google should know how to do that. If you do it this way, you can put
it in your /etc/fstab, and have it auto-mounted at boot time, which I
think is cool.
You could go the reverse route, by running a Samba server on your Linux
box and having Windows 'map a network drive on your Linux box'. That's
definitely more difficult though.
Good luck.
--Dave
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