On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, you wrote:
>Samba will allow me to share my printer between my linux and NT machines?
>Also, it will allow NT to access my ext2 filesystem and linux to
>access ntfs? Is it difficult to setup?
Like most things by Microsoft, SMB is kind of strange to get up and
running. Yes you can share printers and filesystems, but it's very
slow. It seemed faster to me to ftp files on the network via tcp/ip
rather than use SMB. The linux SAMBA-Howto did help a :little: bit as
far as setting things up, but the howto seems rather quickly done and
doesn't cover much, particularly regarding troubleshooting, and it only
lists 1 example setup file. There are hundreds of variables to tweak in
SAMBA but the howto only covers about 10 of those options. So
basically you'll most likely have to take the time to read up on it
yourself if you want it to work right.
My main problem was with printing. I had trouble getting linux to allow
the windows machine to print -- SAMBA literally seemed to ignore the
print request because it did log it as being received., but never
actually printed anything nor did it put it into the queue. However, I
can print just fine if the printer is instead on the windows box --
that's ok really because windows makes much nicer print quality than
linux for my particular printer anyway (HP Deskjet 672c).
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