Sharing Printer

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Sun, March 5, 2006 4:59 pm, brad.mugleston at comcast.net said:
> I've got SAMBA set up on my Linux computer and my son is over and
> he needs to connet his XP notebook to the network to print on my
> printer.
>
> XP is all messed up, it's nothing like anything I've played with
> before and I can't seem to get it to even find my printer or any
> of my shared drives.  I was able to figure out how to set up a
> workgroup on his computer that matched the one on my Linux
> machine (same as the other windows computers use).
>
> He is getting on the wireless network in the house and that part
> works OK.
>
> Anyway, how does an XP connect to my Linux drives and printer.

I think you have to setup the login name he uses on XP as a user on the
Linux Samba server. Either that or the name of the XP Computer. You've got a
good start with the workgroup name, but in my experience it's not necessary
if you set the other part up. I apologize for not knowing whether it's the
PC name or the login name. To see the syntax, however, type addsmbuser at #
and see what it says.

HTH

Karl

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>
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