[wellylug] Mandrake 9 and Samba

[Jonathan Harker]

On Monday 17 Mar 2003 9:08 am, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> I have just got back in to using Mandrake 'full time' on my PC at
> home but have run into the problem that my Linux box cannot see the
> shares on the windows PCs in my office at home, and so I cannot print
>
> :(
>
> Anyone care to give me some pointers? I know that Samba is installed
> and I'm in the correct workgroup as I can see my Mandrake box from
> the Windows PC's (and the share I have on it). My Linux box can 'see'
> the Windows PC's but cannot see any of the share resources on them.

Samba is a server, for serving file shares and printers to other machines. It 
does not include client software to see shares and printers on other 
machines. To do that, you need smbclient, which is separate and includes 
smbmount, to mount other samba/windows shares to a dir on your filesystem.

Try:

smbclient -L host
smbclient -U username -L host

host can be a windows name with fwd slashes, eg. //slartibartfast or an IP 
address, eg. 192.168.1.103

Printing to a Windows box was a bit thorny. I can't remember how I got it 
working now, but reading the samba and cups docs and a quick google search 
seemed to fix it.

Cheers,
Jon


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