Hi 2009/10/3 Barry L. Bond <[email protected]>: [...] > I have added hosts allow with 192.168.1 and 192.168.2. I have > experimented with a few things. I have looked at > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=2556 and even read
This fedoraforums thread is about connecting to Windows from the Linux machine. Based on what you say below it looks like you want the opposite, i.e. connect from the Windows machine to the Linux machine in order to print. > something about making the network communication in Vista be LM as well as > NTLM... You might want to add a bit more context for people who did not see or do not remember the rest of this thread. >From what you say above, I assume that the Windows machine is on either 192.168.1.x or 192.168.2.x networks? Don't forget to use a full stop after them like: hosts allow 192.168.1. 192.168.2. or you could write it like: hosts allow 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24 > Okay, let me ask one basic question at a time. > > I "was thinking" that I didn't have to actually mount samba > (smbmount) in the past, back years ago when I used it with VMWare and > Windows 98. (I was thinking that the smdb/nmdb daemons just did what was > needed.) I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this, but smbmount is for letting the Linux box mount (connect to) a Windows (or Samba) share on another machine. It seems that what you want is the other way around. i.e. to connect to Samba on the Linux machine from the Windows machine. > I will be fine if I just am able to submit a print job from the > Windows/Vista to the Linux HP9110 printer. I will be fine if I just > transfer any files, either direction, by accessing my host filesystem via > Explorer in Windows. (This is how I did it, years ago, with Windows 98 in > VMWare.) > > I am thinking that I do NOT need to add to /etc/fstab, or smbmount > anything from the Linux side. Do you agree? Yes, if you want to connect to Samba from the Windows machine then you do not have to do anything with /etc/fstab or smbmount. What does your smb.conf look like? And what happens when you try to connect/print from the Windows machine? What errors to you get? -- Michael Wood <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
