G'Day all

I have a printer that I have sharing with my laptop hooked up to my desktop. The laptop runs Windows XP, and I duel book the desktop with Fedora Linux Core One. Back when I used Windows XP most of time. Now I use Fedora Most of the time. One of the problems that I need to get worked out is interfacing Windows XP and Linux for file sharing, and to share my printer.

Could someone give me Step-By-Step help on what to do?

Use samba to share files and printer, use smbclient to access windows shares and printers



http://www.samba.org

Okay so I logged into root, I used apt and installed samba. I am back to my account now, how do access samba server?

The samba server is accessed as if it were a windows machine running shared files. You can use microsoft networking, such as Network neighborhood.


You said you installed it, did you set it up?
See if you have the Samba Server Configuration tool under the Menu at System Settings / Server Settings / Samba Server.

Yu wll need to setup the server configuration, shares, and users.

I seem to always have problems getting software to run on linux....

I did not find what you told me to look for under system settings, the only thing there was a thing called services, and I know that has nothing to do with SAMBA.

I then decided to go download the RPMs for SAMBA, and I thought I would install it.. here are my results of that.

samba-2.2.8a-2_rh9.i386.rpm <Package Already Installed
samba-3.0.0-2_rh9.i386.rpm <Package Already Installed
samba-3.0.1-2_rh9.i386.rpm < Package needs libcom_err.so.3 to install.. I did a search for libcom_err.so.3 I found krb5-libs-1.2.7-10.i386.rpm, and the computer that krb5-libs-1.2.7-10.i386.rpm was already installed on my system..

As you can see I am really lost..

try samba-swat

This is very odd.. its saying I need SAMBA to install that.. yet it tells me that SAMBA is already on my computer...

Had the identical problem myself. The problem is the NTFS filesystem (at least on mine. Coulnd;t use FAT32. Stupid Windows) and the kernel as I built it didn;t include NTFS support (slight oversight. Oops!)
I found this:

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
You WILL need the kernel development files from the Fedora CD's to make this work, otherwise the RPM gripes and complains.

Its a tiny little module for the kernel to load those NTFS partitions, using WINE-like logic. I loaded mine up, updated fstab, and never looked back!
I believe the same is possible using WINE directly, but I haven;t gotten WINE to play very nicely with NTFS yet......

I have school tommow so I need to go to bed.. but I will take some time tommow to look at that.. Thank you very much...