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On Saturday 23 March 2002 22:01, you wrote:
If you want to see a Windows share from your Linux machine (see above subject :-) ), you can type on a command line (i.e. xterm) smbclient -L (computer name) -You fill in the name.
I have had no luck with this. I suspect, for the same reason that LinNeighborhood hasn't worked.
If you want to print, you will use lprold, lprng, or cups. I would recommend CUPS to print to your Windows served printer, and your printing program will use samba_print to actually print through the network to your Windows printer.
OK, I see now that printing and smb shares are two very different kettle of fish in Linux. Let's stick to trying to get the smb shares to appear for now, if you are up to it ;-) If we can get it to work without LinNeighborhood, then I will accept this, but it has been about 15 yrs. since I used DOS. I feel totally blind in the command line after having used Macintosh for so long 8-) That is why I have been trying to stick to Art's instructions.
Again, miscommunication. As you noted above, it is control center in KDE. I thought you were talking about the Windows machine, which does have control panel>network.
Not my error, I was quoting from the original e-mail instructions.
The default user name is exactly that. If you set up your Windows (in Windows) to share based on password, then this setting would give it that username and password. If you set up your Windows HD for full access (meaning no password is needed), this is not even needed. BTW, user name is user name, not computer name. This is to authenticate your Linux machine (using Samba) to your password protected Windows shares. I hope that is now clear. ;-)
I believe so. However, if you are using a Win machine and browse your "network neighborhood", you are doing this using the computer name to identify the other computers. As the DHCP/DNS issue has had me so confused, I would just like to verify that my SuSE computer name is what I think it is.
If you are not sharing resources with Windows via Samba (which you would put it in smb.conf), then putting it in Control center for Windows shares will basically allow you to skip the workgroup level (since this would be done by the setting for workgroup) in (I believe) Konquerer (the KDE default file browser).
And "user name" only needs to be filled out in the KDE control center for Win shares if the Win HD is set up for limited access, correct?
No. Do you have Cups installed (it is several different rpms)? Kups is the program I was refering to, because on my network (Windows shared Canon Multipass c-5500), Yast2 could not set it up. Kups did it quite impressively, IMHO.
OK, let's just leave this issue with printing until I am able to see the smb shares with the smb client. Cheers, Brian