On Tuesday 16 August 2005 06:28, Jie Li wrote:
Hi, The place where I am working has an windows intranet and all the printers and file servers are shared on the local network. My question: is it possible to access to them from a linux OS?
Do any of the printers have network connections themselves? We have a linux system for the developers to play with and a similar problem with the printers being managed by Windows servers. As it turns out, the printers are not on a network connected to just those servers, they're actually just sitting on the same network as all the other development systems. Since I could ping the printers server, I just set up CUPS to make direction connection to the printers and it works. I've done the same thing with Windows PCs that don't have "authorized" logons to the Windows servers. You might be able to do the same if you can just ping a printer on the network. File servers are another question. You'll need to get Samba working and probably will need an authorized logon on the windows network.