Just a note of thanks to the two who helped me out on the problem below and to let you know what happened.
After I changed the group name to the same thing and properly configured Samba, all three machines could see each other. That left the problem of the printer. I tried everything I could think of and had been advised to do, but I could never get the Printer GUI in MCC to see the printer. Since I had ordered Mandriva Linux 2006 from Cheapbytes, I gave up on that problem with 2005. When 2006 arrived, I installed it, and it found the printer without problem. On Wed 02 Nov 2005 07:57, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Terry Liittschwager wrote: > >>You should open your firewall on Linux to samba service if you have > >> one. > > > > This was part of the problem. When I disabled the firewall completely > > - turns out it didn't work to just allow Samba - a grouped named Mdkgrp > > showed up on the Windows machines and I can now reach the Linux machine > > from the Windows machines. I still don't see Windows machines from the > > Linux machine though, but maybe I'm just not looking in the right > > place. > > You can change the workgroup name in /etc/samba/smb.conf. Sometimes it > is easyer to skip the GUI, and edit the config file directly... You can > also configure the directories you want to share here. > > >>For your printer run the Printer GUI from Mandriva control Centre. It > >>should find and configure the Windows printer. > > > > Unfortunately running PrinterDrake and asking for it to "Auto-detect > > printers connected to machines running Microsoft Windows" still results > > in a "No printer found" message. > > This may work better after the workgroup is changed to match the Windows > machines... > > > Is it perhaps necessary to first install a driver for the printer on > > the Linux machine to enable it to detect such a printer on the Windows > > machine? > > Detect the printer first. The GUI will take care of installing the > driver if it is supported by Linux. If it is not, then things get > complicated... > > Mikkel
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