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Author: Stephen
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Subject: Re: networking printer with brothers Windows machine.
thats a halfway correct statement. the used BSD as the core, and the
rebuilt their Interface around that. borrowing heavily from the mach32
kernel technology from NeXtstep they bought.

A little more integrated, but its close enough.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Derek Trotter <> wrote:
> So there shouldn't be any problem making the mac talk to everything else on
> the network.  The mac uses samba.  The linux box does too.  The mac and the
> linux box understand cups.  Am I right in my understanding that the Mac os
> is just BSD unix with the apple gui running on top of it?
>
> On 11/21/2011 9:27, Stephen wrote:
>
> they use samba for all windows related communication, but its
> basically cups now.
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Derek Trotter <>
> wrote:
>
> Does Apple currently enable samba on the macs or do they still stick with
> their own protocol?  Wasn't it appletalk?
>
> On 11/21/2011 7:52, Stephen wrote:
>
> you will need both samba and cups running on a installed system.
>
> if Linux talks to the printer natively then the rest is easy peasy,
> otherwise it can take a little time to get the driver in place.
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
> 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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