Hello There,
I am still not getting through on my network with Samba, and I still cant get my printer to work, I am running Windows XP Pro on my main computer, Athlon 2400, 760 mb Ram, 80 gb hard drive , my second computer is Intel Celeron, 256 Ram, 6 gb hard drive, I just got SuSE 9.0 w/ KDE desltop installed acouple of weeks ago. I thought I had Samba configured, and also my printer, Hp Deskjet 5550 but I cant get a test page and its not showing on my final printing dialog box even though I can see it on my network during configuration and can choose it. I cant see the Linux machine in my network places on theWindows box either. Funny thing though since I configured it every time I boot up the Windows box my printer starts running and kicks out a blank page. I am sooooo lost I am so very new to Linux and am actually jsut trying to learn and teach myself. I have been reading enormous amounts of help files but am still struggling with getting around my Linux. I did get my email and my IM ( kopete ) working. If anyone out there has any ideas or can point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it, I am lost at this point. Also I know this is going to sound really stupid but where do I find the directions on using the other desktop ( GNOME ) and how do I switch and also how do I find all the programs on my system and enable them. Sorry for the looooonnnngggg post. Thanks a bunch to all of you here who share your experience and expertise. Hoping to be a part of the Linux World!!!!!

SuSE is a good distro but not the place to learn linux. SuSE will do too much for you, and that is no way to learn. To realey learn linux you neeed a hard core distro that will not hand you any thing. Look at Gentoo, Debian, or Slackware. SuSE, Mandrake, and Redhat will hold you back as far as learning linux.

I wouldn't recommend distro hopping at this point. You seem to have things almost working.

I did find an article which remommended making some changes to cups for machines to print from Windows.

Remove the hash mark ( # ) to enable that feature.

/etc/cups/mime.convs
application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -

Also uncomment the following line from this file....

/etc/cups/mime.types:
application/octet-stream

Don't forget to restart cups with the command: service cups restart