Larry Dick wrote:
I'm using debian 2.6.18-6-amd64 and Window XP Sp2.
My network is a Windows workgroup.
I've fiddled about and now can get windows to see into the debian box , it
can read and write to the file system.
I'm trying to get Debian to see a windows ntfs file system that is marked
shared to all and read only and a Windows printer.
I've looked all over the place for instructions on how to do this and have
not succeeded in finding a bunch that work.
Could someone point me a definitive list of instructions on how to go about
doing this. I'm new to Linux, but I can follow instructions. Please help.
I've Never Done This But...(tm)
Windows up to XP has something called Print Services For UNIX, which is
effectively a networked LPD. Here's the MS info:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324078
or you can Google windows unix print services for various tutorials.
Or printer sharing over SMB should work, as others have said. I share a
printer by pulling out the USB plug and moving it, so I've never tried
either of these.
There shouldn't be any problem about seeing Windows shares. Even Vista
can be persuaded to offer its shares on the network (with a certain
amount of kicking..) and Konqueror is also a quick and dirty share
browser (smb://servername/sharename) to check everything is working. The
underlying Windows file system is irrelevant, apart from needing to set
suitable permissions on NTFS directories. If one Windows machine can see
another's shares, then so should Konqueror with the following packages
installed. Many Linux SMB/CIFS programs don't seem too bothered about
workgroup names, and will see everything.
I have smbclient and smbfs (both of which use samba-common) and
libsmbclient on my workstation. smb4k is useful if you have the KDE
libraries installed. smbfs (using the cifs filing system name) can be
set up to mount shares at boot. Here's a line from my /etc/fstab (it's
for a Linux Samba server, but that shouldn't matter):
//jredeb/share1 /mnt/jreserver/share1 cifs
guest,user,noperm,file_mode=0x777,dir_mode=0x777,rw
Best of luck.
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Joe
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