Well, I got my brother online but we need to network the printer through the linux box. What do I do?
1- Download samba
hmmmmm..... problems. I guess I'll have to get the hard drive. Probably need an installed system.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install samba
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
openbsd-inetd inet-superserver smbldap-tools ldb-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
samba
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,999 kB of archives.
After this operation, 23.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main samba i386 2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2 [7,999 kB]
Fetched 7,999 kB in 52s (153 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package samba.
(Reading database ... 132576 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking samba (from .../samba_2%3a3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for ufw ...
Setting up samba (2:3.5.11~dfsg-1ubuntu2) ...
Generating /etc/default/samba...
Importing account for nobody...ok
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/smbstatus.samba3 to provide /usr/bin/smbstatus (smbstatus) in auto mode.
start: Unknown job: smbd
invoke-rc.d: initscript smbd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
samba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ^C
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