Hi all
Now have the new main PC (NUC B10) working, we are able to print to
printers (Laser connected on PC by USB, Colour printer via the network
(Router Ethernet) and all looks well from the PC.
On the old PC we had Samba installed as that was very early on in my
Linux days and Terry very kindly came over and installed it.
Tried to share my laptop 'Documents' folder so that I can get to
the_laptop_ files from the new PC. On laptop notice comes up saying
Samba is not installed.
Also noticed I can't now print on the Laser even when the PC is 'ON'.
With the old PC as long as it was 'ON' I could print OK.
Laptop has the following files installed:-
Sambs-libs, Samba-common, Samba-common-bin, smbclient, libsmbclient,
libwbclient0, Python-samba & Nemo-share
but _No_ Samba just smbclient etc.
As all our equipment is Linux do I need to have Samba to share equipment
and files, or is there another Linux way? A long while ago someone said
you only need Samba if you connect to Windows machines.
I'm guessing that some of the above files are from those times although
Mint has been re-installed from scratch several times since then.
The router also has the NAS drive connected via Ethernet so shows up on
the network as well.
If I have to have Samba I believe it's awkward to set up so I could be
asking lots of questions!!!
At this stage I'm asking the question so that I can decide if the
trouble is worth it.
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