On Friday 02 March 2001 02:50, Jethro Cramp wrote:
**ALERT** **ALERT** **TECHNICAL QUESTION**
I am working in an office for a couple of months and I want to connect my laptop to the local windows network. I want to be able to view shared folders on the network (peer-to-peer TCP/IP win98) and to be able to access the shared HP laser printer.
I don't need to give anyone access to my computer.
Should I be looking to samba to solve this or should I be looking elsewhere?
TIA,
Jethro
Jethro, If you want to mount SMB drives on your linux box use smbmount. I use it as follows: mount -tsmbfs -ousername=hattons //<NT host>/<NT share> /<linux mount point> [enter] password:****** There may be some differences if you are conecting to a DOS/Windows box such as Windows 95/98/me. As far as printing goes. You will probably need to prefilter your print jobs. I believe the SuSE book does a good job of explaining how to accomplish this. I use an NT box with ldp running on it, and send prefiltered print jobs to it. If you have a jet direct, search the mailing list for messages on this subject. I think this will be about the 6.4/7.0 time frame. HTH, Steve