Connecting to NT printers

[Craig White]

Quoting Tom Achtenberg <tachtenberg@qwest.net>:

> The connection failed.
> 
> At this point I have not changed anything on the NT server.  Do I need
> to 
> install or change any settings there for it to see the Linux box?
> 
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Hmmm...

you should be able to see the shares with a command...

smbclient -L ip_address_of_Windows_NT_Server

So let's get more basic

Does Windows NT Server have TCP/IP protocol installed? Is ip address on the 
same subnet as your linux box? Does Windows NT server have ANY firewall product 
running on it?  Does Linux box have a firewall running on it? 'ipchains -L' or 
if you are using iptables 'iptables -L' - is it possible that the netbios ports 
137/138/139 are blocked on the internal lan NIC?

Is Windows NT Server a domain controller? If so - get the domain name exactly 
right in the 'Workgroup' in /etc/samba/smb.conf

then 'service smb restart'

then 'smbpasswd -j DOMAINNAME' - this will join the domain/create a workstation 
trust account for the linux box on the domain server.

then you should have no trouble with 'smbclient -L ip_address_of_Win_NT_Server
(though you might have to supply an administrator password to access the shares.

Craig

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