RE: FC2 - Samba setup

["Otto Haliburton" <ottohaliburton comcast net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:redhat-install-list-
> bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:57 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: FC2 - Samba setup
> 
> Hi,
>    I got my son a new GQ/Linspire computer yesterday at Frys. $199.
> Fan is noisy and not much memory, but boy this is a lot of technology
> for $199.
> 
>    I booted it with Linspire but it's far too commercial for my tastes
> so I've installed FC2 which is now up and running. One nice thing I
> saw in Linspire was a little app that I could put in windows workgroup
> info and immediately the machine say my wife's Win XP box. I'm having
> trouble finding this under FC2 using with Gnome or KDE which are both
> on the box.
> 
>    What was I seeing and using to do this? The app just asked me what
> the workgroup name was and after than everything worked.
> 
>    If I need an RPM then where do I go these days to get FC2 RPMs?
> 
>    Basically I want to add a printer on this new FC2 box and have that
> visible to my wife in the other room, and also to let the two of them
> share files between their computers.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
> 
> _______________________________________________

Hi Mark,
	I know how you relish in getting things to work and so I kinda don't
want to make this suggestion but you are a fellow Fry's shopper and you can
get a print server really cheap at Fry's and if you don't want to spend a
lot of time getting Samba to work then this is the way to go.