networking printer with brothers Windows machine.

[Derek Trotter]

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<expat.arizonan at gmail.com>  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<bmike1 at gmail.com>  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 at 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 at ubuntu:~$ ^C
>>
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