Samba

[Bob George]

 "Trent Shipley" <tshipley@symbio-tech.com> wrote:

> In the unlikely event you care:

Hmph!

> - Red Hat prints to HPLJ-1100 on NT4 !

I haven't done this (yet) but Samba will support this. Do a Google search on
"Samba print NT" and you'll get some hints to start with. Warning: It
doesn't free you from playing with printcap!

> - NT4 prints to HPLJ-1100 on Red Hat

This definitely works. I set up samba to share my Linux print queues and it
just worked. The only downside is that installation of drivers isn't
transparent. I just installed the drivers on NT/Windows pointing to local
LPT port, then re-directed them to a network printer (Samba) afterwards and
it worked fine.

Of course, the printer needs to be visible when you browse the Samba server!
If not, check out your smb.conf.

> - SuSE networks to Red Hat over Samba?

I posted a detailed message about this within the last two weeks. Assuming
the RedHat box is already running Samba sharing well, you just need the
samba client tools on the SuSE box. Then you can use smbmount for file
sharing.

> - Compile C++ 'Hello World' program on SuSE !  (Need to get to
> work on Rio Salado C++ class)

Sounds like just an issue of getting the tools installed. No Samba issues
there, right?

> - Repeat with little FreeBSD box.

Repeat process with Samba tools I expect. I haven't done this with BSDen
yet, but I believe the tools are the same.

Good luck!

- Bob